In An Instant...

Psalm 103:14-16 "...for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more." 1 Corinthians 15:53 "For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality."

There comes a time in each person's life when you finally realize your mortality. A point that you come to...oh, somewhere around the age of fifty...that you realize there is probably more years behind you than you have ahead of you. For the one who knows Jesus as Lord and Savior of their life, they know this is not the end, only the beginning.

In an instant our eyes will no longer see this world but the next. In an instant we will no longer hear or see the loved ones we leave behind but see the face of Jesus. In an instant we will leave behind our earthly bodies and receive our eternal body. In an instant we become a memory.

Even so as we live our day to day lives we tend to forget where we came from and that each one of us has a date and time when we will finally see Jesus face to face. God never forgets that we are dust. In the midst of that I realize that God so loved this piece of dust....me...that He sent his precious Son to die for me so that I might live not as dust in eternity, but as an heir of the Father! This just boggles my mind! Talk about your upgrades! I do have His promise of eternal life. Psalm 49:15 "But God will redeem my life from the grave; he will surely take me to himself." John 11:25 "Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies."

These are great words of assurance...and there are so many more in His Word. Because of His Word I know where I'm going someday. What is so very sad is that not everybody has that assurance. Some believe everybody goes to heaven. Some believe that when you die you are no more...there is no heaven or hell. What about you? What do you believe?

I know most of you reading this devotional know Jesus as Lord and Savior, but I'm speaking to the one that has never made a profession of faith. You can be assured of where you will be when you take your last breath here on the earth and your first breath in heaven. Jesus said in John 11:26: "Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

If you have never trusted Jesus as your Savior you can remedy that today...right now...if you don't know what to pray, call your pastor, your believer friend, call us at America's Keswick and someone would love to share the gospel with you and His promises will be yours. It will all happen in an instant.

DIGGING DEEPER: Psalm 103 - 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

MaryAnn

MaryAnn and John Kiernan have been married for 36 years, have 2 grown/married sons and are the proud grandparents of three grandsons and one granddaughter! She serves at America's Keswick as a Biblical Counselor and also as Intake Coordinator for the Colony of Mercy. Her life verse is Romans 8:28.

Join us for VICTORY WEEK #2. Drs. David Epstein and Roger Willmore will be sharing the WORD at America's KESWICK. If you can't drive in for a meeting, you can watch the morning and evening services right from our website: www.americaskeswick.org beginning at 9:30 am and 7:00 pm.