” He will remove all their sorrows and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. For the old world and its evils are gone forever” ( Revelations 21: 4)
I signed off the previous blog with a question on what is so good about Eternal Life that I should desire it more than this life that I now live? ….Little did I know the answer would be served up to me in shovels of realities and practicalities.
Since then , my mum got quite ill and was hospitalised and had to spend some time in my home under my nursing care. I have had someone known to me lose a loved one, practically every other day such that saying words like , “My thoughts and prayers are with you” ….and “May (s)he rest In peace” is almost becoming as inane as saying “Hello”
Why do we think so little on eternal life and about eternal life?
Did we get too comfortable in this life? Are we so at home in this world that the thought or desire for another life that is supposedly better just really doesn’t appeal to us. Or perhaps we got so accustomed to pain, grief, loss, disease and disaster befalling us that we have resigned ourselves to accepting the worst of our lives as the rest of our life.
Whatever the reason, the reality is we are far too blinded or jaded by our fallen nature to ever appreciate, much less desire, a state of existence that will be free from darkness, death, destruction or decay in any form. It just cannot enter into our mind that we can dwell in such a perpetual state of blissful perfection forever and ever. ….that’s a fool’s fantasy!
Yet the bible promises us nothing short of that. The whole purpose of Jesus life, death and resurrection here on earth was to publicly declare irrefutable evidence that there is eternal life and it is far more glorious than we can ever dare to dream, think or imagine.
It is a life that is free of disease and death. A life that can never be corrupted or tainted by sin and sorrow. A life where there will be no need for tears or sighing because pain shall be no more. To every believer in Jesus, it is the never-ending joy and delight of being in the presence of God, our Father, whom we have come to know more and more as the source of absolute Love, Light, Truth and Good.
Eternal life is real. the grave is the gateway. The way can only be found by those who are willing to believe in Him who has walked the path from the Grave here on earth to Eternal Glory in heaven and lives on today to testify to this. Jesus Christ.