For it is my Father’s will that all who see His son and believe in him should have eternal life – that I should raise them on the last day” ( John 6:40)
There will be a Last Day!….
Apart from the fact that Jesus spoke several times about a Last Day,……… (and everything he said came to pass with 100% accuracy)……………Why is it reasonable to expect a Last Day here on earth?
In the same way there was a first day, when God created the heavens and the earth and proceeded to create every living thing in the following 6 days… there will be a Last Day. Allow me to rephrase,……..because there was a First Day here on earth, you can bet there will be a Last Day.
We too have a first day of our lives here on earth. We call it our birth day and as every year rolls around we celebrate or at least acknowledge that we have turned a year older. We hardly stop to think that we have drawn a moment closer to our own Last Day here on earth.
The Earth too shall have a Last Day. If it had a First Day, and given the state of rapid environmental decline we witness with each passing day, it’s not too far fetched to imagine a day when the Earth shall end. So what comes next after the Last Day? Is the end of all things really the end of us?
It would all be so pointless to live this life knowing that beyond our expiration day or the earth’s expiration day ( whichever should come first) there is nothing else to look forward to. Thankfully, Jesus disabused us of this futility by assuring us that after the Last Day there is Life without end or Everlasting Life.
We no longer need to live with a seemingly morbid view of our Last Day. We can project our gaze further on into the horizon of Eternity where Life Indeed does go on. The Last Day is a portal or gateway to Eternity. Jesus spoke a lot about Eternity and emphasized that the only way you get to Eternal Life was by believing in Him. ( John 3:16)
But pray tell, why should I believe, or more to our generational Ask, Why should I desire this Eternal Life? What is so Good about Eternal Life that I should desire it more than this Life that I now live? …. ( Answer coming up shortly)…