MORTALITY SWALLOWED UP BY LIFE

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (2 Corinthians 5:1 NKJV)

This chapter begins with “we know". There is no shadow of uncertainty. From first to last it is saturated with unwavering conviction. When it was written faith and hope had almost faded out of the world. Men and women were groping in the wilderness of atheism, with no star in their sky, and no oasis in their march. In the midst of a decadent civilization and vanished hope, Paul, and others who stood with him, dared to confirm that there were certain facts of which man might be absolutely sure. They were not proved by argument or analogy, but discerned by the Spirit's intuition, and proved by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

We must always distinguish between theories, which change with the various moods of human thought, and the eternal facts, which are established on solid testimony, and are as steadfast as the throne of the Eternal. "We know" there was an accent of certainty in those words, which changed the outlook of the world!

God's Objective. It is an immense help in this human life to know the direction in which God's fiery cloud or pillar is leading us. If only we can get a clue to what God is meaning in our life, it will smooth out many perplexities and untangle a troubled and hopeless life. What is God doing for you and me? The Apostle answers, He is endeavoring to bring it about that our mortality may be swallowed up of life. God wants to wipe out in each of us all traces of the fall. It is His purpose to eliminate everything which brands us as members of an exiled race, so that our mortality, whether of spirit, soul, or body, may be swallowed up by life,” the life of which our veins are scant, the life for which our spirits pant, more life and fuller!" Think of it! For you, and me, and all who have been translated from the region of darkness, and brought into the Kingdom of the Son of His love! Mortality engulfed in life! We cannot fathom it! We know not what we shall be; we only know that we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. Such is God's objective. He is working for us and in us, for this very thing!

PRAYER

Carry me over this last long mile,

Man of Nazareth, Christ for me!

Speak to me out of the silent night,

That my spirit may know, as onward I go,

That Your pierced hands

Are guiding me over the road.

In Your name I pray this, AMEN.

God's Daily Promise

 Promise #364:
I will guide you to the very end, for I will be your God.

Psalm 48:14 (WEB)
For this God is our God forever and ever.
He will be our guide even to death.