August 2, 2021

NEVER DIE

John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Encouraging Words

Throughout the history of humankind, we have been searching for the fountain of youth. Humankind is continually fleeing from the prospect of aging and then ultimately dying. Jesus, in this passage, has made it clear that there is only one fountain of youth. It is Him! His promise of eternal life is not in this earthly, limited body, but in our resurrected body that we will receive in His Kingdom. Our fear of death is the reason we sin. We sin because we desire to beat the hold that death has on us or at least get the most out of our earthly life before we die. Jesus also is the answer to this problem. He destroyed the gates of hell and put to death death as we proclaim in our Orthodox Paschal hymn, "Christ has risen from the dead, trampling death by death, and upon those in the tombs, bestowing life!" If we walk with Jesus, believing in Him, then we will never die, Glory be to God!