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Meaning
of Life
Eternal Life
A child does not begin to
exist when he or she is born. The child has already existed for nine months
prior to this in the mother’s womb. At the point of birth
only the conditions
in which the child exists change. Before
he lived internally; now
he lives
externally. Before
he was fed internally; now
he feeds externally. He does
not begin to live at birth: he has lived all the time since conception
but
conditions change at birth.
So also can the believer
view death. At the point of death
the conditions of our eternal life
change—but not the fact that we do indeed have eternal life. ──
Michael P. Green《Illustrations for Biblical Preaching》
Eternal Life
When the great Christian
scientist Sir Michael Faraday was dying
some journalists questioned him about
his speculations for a life after death. He purportedly replied: “Speculations!
I know nothing about speculations. I’m resting on certainties. I know that my
Redeemer liveth
and because He lives
I shall live also” (Job 19:25). ──
Michael P. Green《Illustrations for Biblical Preaching》
Eternal Life
B.J. Honeycutt
a character
on the T.V. series “M.A.S.H.
” gave this reason for why he didn’t give in to
temptation in the midst of the Korean War: “I live in an insane world where nothing
makes sense. Everyone around me lives for the now
because there may not be a
tomorrow. But I have to live for tomorrow
because for me there is no now.”
For B.J.
his hope for the
future was seeing his family again. That hope was sufficient to define how he
would behave in an extremely difficult situation. How much more so should our
future hope of the