Fact and Faith!

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:   And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? John 11:25‭-‬26 KJV

Just as these words were spoken more than 2,000 years ago, so are these words coming back to us again. We were created to live forever, in close fellowship with God and other men, but sin came to tamper with the original template. With sin came death, destruction and eternal damnation. But one thing is clear: no force on earth can defeat God's original intention. His death and life sealed our own life. Physical death has become just a channel into God's unending life. Death has lost its power and effect; all I need to have is life in me, and death becomes just a phase, an event, a passage into eternal life.

However, it does not just happen. Jesus introduces himself to us as the Resurrection and the Life. Both events are important. Only in Him does everything dead or dying receive life. Only in him does eternal life exist. This present life is a phase, and all I may hold or possess is just a myth that will burn eventually. Jesus must be talking about something deeper than what man can give me, or an assurance that no man can guarantee. The dead receive life only through him, and one who receives this life can never die again.

Key to this is to believe in Jesus. Sounds easy but reality points to the difficulties in accepting this truth. In this world where we have been taught that you have to earn everything, this message sucks. We have been nurtured on the message of effort and qualification. Unfortunately, with God, these things don't count. You can't earn it, you can't add to it. You just must accept it the way it is offered.

As Jesus asked then, so the question comes again to me: "Do you believe". Be sure, because eternity rests on your truthful response. His time of favour is here.