Our Goal Is Eternity

Read the promise of Christ in John 14!!

1 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.

-> Jesus tells us NOT to be troubled. Why? Because we are on His mind and He is making necessary preparations for us to be where He is. And where's that? Eternity! A realm of God where we will be provided for. The rooms are many and there's one for each of us! How could it be? Everyone of us? Yes, everyone who trusts in God and trusts in Christs Jesus!

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going."

-> But some say, "if only I lived in the time of Christ and knew Him personally. How do I know that Jesus has included me?" Romans 3:4 reminds us that God is not a man that He should lie! Jesus said that He has gone to prepare a place for us and so He would! In fact, He also guaranteed that He would come back to take us to where He is! But perhaps, like Thomas, you might doubt and say:

5 "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" 6 Jesus says, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

-> Did you hear that? If this is not clear enough, Jesus also said in John 10:11 that He is the good shepherd who gives life for His sheep! He does not mince His words but is explicit to instruct that...

7 "Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture."

-> How could we doubt? How could we not trust that our everlasting future has been taken care of and we are to focus on bringing glory to God in this life, so as to be assessed worthy of the place that has been prepared. Romans 10:17 says that "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing the word of God."

If God has promised, it is just for us to believe and accept it. Our trust in His word does not increase the credibility and validity of the spoken word of God. It stands true regardless because it is the truth. However, our attitude towads the promises of God determines the security of life we have in Christ! As is expressed in Psalm 146:

3 Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish. 5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God, 6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; Who keeps truth forever

Amen and Halleluyah! God is good! #nelle#