Thinking about eternal life and living forever is very exciting to me, but it’s so big that it’s pretty hard to really wrap my mind around it.  How about you?  I think we are all born with the desire to live forever, but it’s really hard to fully grasp it, isn’t it?

For example, the physical body I now live in is certainly not going to last forever; I see it aging month by month and year by year. Even those multi-centenarians you read about in the Bible still died.  Noah was around 700 years old when he completed the Ark and Methuselah lived over 900 years, but they still died, right?

So, while it’s really hard to imagine the body I have right now living forever, I’m glad the Bible promises when Christ returns we will get new bodies, fashioned like his resurrected body.  That’s something to really look forward to, isn’t it?

Add Up The Good And The Bad

Another thing that is really hard for me concerning eternal life is not earning or deserving it, but getting it anyway.  If I added up every good, decent, noble and right thing I’ve done in my life, collectively it would never be enough to even qualify for an application request for eternal life.  But the Bible says that eternal life is a gift from God.  Gifts are not earned; they are freely given.

On the other hand, if I stacked up all my mistakes, wrongs and blunders, they would undoubtedly and undeniably be grounds for revoking my eternal life. But God doesn’t call it temporary life, He calls it eternal life.  And so it’s really hard for me to think that living forever is something I can neither earn nor lose. So, I choose to accept that it has been freely given to me, because of what Christ accomplished.

What About This?

The Bible is really quite clear that eternal life is a free gift from God, and it is really hard for me to understand why some people teach that a person needs to work for it.  They say things like, “If you do enough good, and not too much bad, you’ll make it into heaven and live forever.”  It’s hard for me to understand that teaching when the Bible specifically says that we are saved by grace, not by works.

And there is something else that is really hard for me to figure out.  Eternal life and salvation are freely given by God to those who accept Christ.  It’s so easy and so simple.  Why then doesn’t everyone accept Christ as the Son of God, the lord of all men, the savior, and believe that God raised him from the dead to die no more?

If eternal life had a price tag, regardless of how high that price was, we would be inclined to spend our whole lives trying to acquire it, wouldn’t we?   Actually, the price has already been paid, and it was a very high price: the life of the Son of God.  It’s really not very hard to accept that, and receive eternal life.

Mike Verdicchio
2013

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