The KEY to TOMORROW!
Updated: Sep 29, 2023
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The KEY to TOMORROW!
Friend, death is a democracy. It comes equally to us all and makes us all equal. As Longfellow said:
“Art is long, and time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.”
Occasionally someone remarks in the spirit of Thoreau, “I’m not interested in questions on immortality. One world at a time, that’s my motto. Do the duty that lies close at hand and don’t worry about the hereafter.” However, this sidesteps the problem, for what a man believes about the hereafter affects the way he lives here. Neither does it come to grips with the age-old question, “If a man dies, shall he live again?” (Job 14:14). As fellow travellers toward the grave, we pause…and ponder …and hope!
Philosophers often doom us to disappointment. They tend to be such a gloomy lot when faced with the question of life after death. Staring at the moving edge of time, they cringe and say:
“Where is my home? For it do I ask and seek, and have sought, but have not found it. O eternal everywhere, O eternal nowhere, O eternal in vain.” --- Nietzsche
“There is no way out, or around, or through.” -- H.G. Wells
“Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry.” --Robert Ingersoll
Friend, such words do not satisfy. They offer nothing more than a grave in a cemetery or a crypt in a mausoleum.
During the Korean struggle, the Fifth Company of American Marines, with eighteen thousand men, fought against more than a hundred thousand Chinese communists. Marguerite Higgins, the Pulitzer Prize winner, reported the following words:
“It was particularly cold—42 degrees below zero—that morning when reporters were standing around.
The weary soldiers, half-frozen, stood by their dirty trucks eating from tin cans. A huge marine was eating cold beans with his trench knife. His clothes were as stiff as a board. His face, covered with a heavy beard, was crusted with mud.
A correspondent asked him, “If I were God and could grant you anything you wished, what would you most like?”
The man stood motionless for a moment. Then he raised his hand and replied,
"Give me tomorrow!”
Friend, the key to tomorrow belongs to Jesus. After demonstrating His power over death, He declared, “I am the one who is alive, I was dead, but look, I am alive forever and ever! I have the keys of death and Hades.” (Revelation 1:18 ISE). Triumphant in victory, Jesus promised, “Whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die” (John 11:26).
What Jesus meant in those words, is that His faithful followers would never experience eternal separation from God.
Only Jesus, and Jesus alone, can promise us Eternal life!
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“Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities have crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it
Serenely and with too high a spirit
To be encumbered with our old nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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“The Key to Tomorrow!”
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It's all about Heaven!
"So, we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands." (2 Corinthians 4:18-5:1)
“Think of it like this: your last day on earth
will be your best day ever!
How awesome is that?”
“The end of life on earth is the beginning of
a glorious life with Christ in Heaven!
How awesome is that?”
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