These words from Jesus frame one of the most important questions you will ever answer. Do you really believe what Jesus promised in this verse - that "real you" is eternal and will never die? Do you believe that when you died with Christ in baptism through faith, you died the most significant death you will ever die, and that your physical death will not separate you from Jesus - that when you die, you go to be with Jesus? All of life, even all of eternity for you, hangs on your answer to these questions.* So ask yourself: Do I believe that Jesus is the resurrection and life, and that even when my body dies, I will never die?
* The promises behind these questions, and the confidence in the prayer that follows, are implied by Jesus' words in our verse for today and reaffirmed by the apostle Paul in
Philippians 1:21-23;
Colossians 2:12,
3:2-4.
Almighty and Everlasting Father, I believe that because you have adopted me into your family based on my faith in Jesus as the resurrection and the life, death will never claim me and can never have me. Please help me live with fresh vigor and confidence, knowing that the evil one cannot have me, death cannot claim me, and no one can strip me of the life that I have because I am yours through Jesus, your Son and my
Lord, who is risen from the dead and coming in glory, a glory I will share with him. In the name of my precious Redeemer, Savior, and
Lord, I pray. Amen.
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