Life in Its Fullness

November 15

Spending eternity in heaven is the great blessing of all people who receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. It is the ‘unspeakable gift’ of II Corinthians 9:15. It is the one thing that distinguishes Christianity from all other religions, for no other belief system worships a god who became a man to rescue man from sin.

We who love Jesus find Him altogether lovely. He is without the taint of the human attributes that beset us. He is pure and holy and His sacrifice of Himself enables us to be pure and holy in the eyes of a Holy God, of whom the Word says, “He is of purer eyes than to look upon evil” (Habakkuk 1:13).

The beauty of the salvation that our Lord supplies to us is the fact that we don’t have to wait for heaven to reap its benefits. The Word gives us many assurances that our blessings begin in the ‘here-and-now.’ Although there is nothing of earth to compare to the wonders of our eternal abode, it is our blessing to be able to appropriate, by faith, the help we need as we trod from our earthly habitat to our eternal home.

Paul says in Romans 8:11, “If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who lives in you.” Your mortal body receives life in its fullness because He who is life dwells in the temple that you become when HE lives in you.