Can you imagine what will happen to a man/woman who cures death? Somehow, if a person came up with a pill that if we were to take it, we would never die? How much would you pay for that pill? How much would you pay so that your loved ones will never die? It would be safe to say that that person would rule the world. We would sacrifice everything we have to have that pill and make the maker of that pill our king!

“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?” Mark 8:26  Everything you have ever accrued up to that point, you will lose it all with death. And I’m not just talking about money here. But also your experience, your knowledge, your memory, your loved ones, your accomplishment, your pride – all will be gone with your death. So, it is true that we would give up anything, save life, to attain that pill that will let us live forever because whatever we have given up, we can earn it all back with eternity on hand….

Jesus said about a dead girl that she’s not dead but sleeping. And as if to wake up a child from sleep, He says, “Little girl, get up.” (Mark 5:41) Tim Keller translates it, “Sweetie, it’s time to wake up,” as if to wake up a child for school in the morning. And that is how easy it is for Jesus to wake up us after we have long been dead and gone. Although our bodies may be burned in a crematorium and our ashes scattered to the four winds, Jesus will say one day gently, “My child, time to get up.” And our ashes will gather, bones will be constructed back, and flesh adorn those bones, and our soul will return to that body.

That is why we give up everything for Jesus – the source of eternal life! And it is not simply eternal existence. It is eternal LIFE. It means happiness, abundance, love, pleasure, no more sadness, no more loneliness, no more goodbyes, no more war, no more… anything that’s been corrupted by sin!

Even if you have to sell everything to attain this eternal life, do it. What have you got to lose since you will lose it anyway?

PH