I was watching a young Mum with her newborn baby the other day, and got to thinking how this little life is there for ever. Everything that the child will grow into is already in place except its attitudes, and these are up to the parents to teach and show as the child develops. What an awesome responsibility, and one that so many people take so lightly!

    Life has a beginning at conception and then grows as the child is born and takes its first breath. This life does not end at death, it just begins! What we have been on earth lays the foundation for what we will be in the next life…just as Jesus said, “What we bind on earth will be bound in heaven.”(Matthew 18:18)

 This life is just the beginning of eternity. Every baby that takes a breath exists for ever, for eternity….life on earth is just a dot, and what we do with it is up to us! It is crucial in the extreme, and is something that must not be pushed to one side…we have no option but to examine the matter thoroughly if we would be true to ourselves. Our eternal destiny depends on it.

    We went to a friend’s funeral service the other day, and those who were Christians were rejoicing in the fact that we will see him again one day and that there is an eternal confidence of  this. Those of his relatives who did not know the Lord had no such confidence…for them he was gone for ever. They wanted to think that he was finished, ended, and that the same fate would one day be theirs, but this is not what the Bible teaches.

Death is not the end for any human being, it is only the beginning of eternity, an eternity to be spent either with God in His presence or an eternity without Him in the depths of despair, and we have the answer to this in our hands. As one Old Testament leader said to his ;people….”Choose this day who you will serve…whether the gods of the nations around you, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15)

Jesus said….”I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly!”  ( John 10:10)  and…

“This is life eternal…that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ  Who You sent.” (John 17:3)