Apr 24 Devotion: Where We Never Grow Old

John 11:23-26

23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.

24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Just a couple of days ago, April 21st, was my mother’s birthday. She went home to be with the Lord several years ago but if she had lived, she would have been 100 years old two days ago. Isn’t that the way we usually make that statement, if she had lived. I think we all know what we are saying but the statement is not true. Yes, she died physically, but she is alive. She is living because of Jesus Christ. So, it is not, if she had lived, but she is living. In fact, her life now is more living than she ever lived here on earth.

My mom had Alzheimer’s disease. (That is such a terrible disease that strips away who you are and changes you into someone you thought you would never be.) What it cannot do is change your eternal future, for long before that disease took control of her mind and body she had trusted Christ as her Savior. No situation or circumstance could override her salvation in Christ. Physical death could not do it. Disease could not do it. She was saved, sealed, and secure.

Almost a year before she died (physically) the Lord impressed upon me the subject of what I should preach at her funeral for I knew that responsibility would fall on me. I preached on the subject; Saved People Go to Heaven When They Die. The Bible says that saved people never perish, they are sealed unto the day of redemption, and they are secure in Christ (who has gone to prepare a place for them.) My mom is not 100 now but is whatever age eternal life is (which could be categorized as ageless). She will forever be the same age, for over there, there is one eternal day.

Revelation 21:3-5

3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

1Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

That sure sounds like living to me.

In Christ's Service,

Bro. Adrian Moore

2 Cor. 4:5