Hears My Word and Believes

Day 128: John 5:24-47

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.” - John 5:24 ESV

Everything we are doing now is preparing us for the moment we take our last breath. We would like to think that many of our actions are neutral, flying under the radar with God. Yet, every decision we make is a statement of death or life.

This is why believing (trusting) in Jesus is the most important decision we will ever make in this life. It not only affects our day-to-day life now but will also translate into eternity after we die.

The Apostle Paul affirmed this teaching of Jesus when he wrote:  “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.” - 1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV

It is difficult for us to come to the understanding that all we currently see will become irrelevant. When Jesus returns, and we are all assigned our eternal destinies, what will rush through our minds? Will we be worried about the replacement of our kitchen countertops or the fact that we failed Organic Chemistry? No. Hopefully, we will be thankful that we trusted the only one who is able to grant eternal life.

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“We ought always to consider what it is that the Gospel offers to us; for we need not wonder that he who receives Christ with all his merits is reconciled to God, and acquitted of the condemnation of death; and that he who has received the gift of the Holy Spirit is clothed with a heavenly righteousness, that he may walk in newness of life, (Rom. 6:6.)” - Calvin, J., & Pringle, W. (2010). Commentary on the Gospel According to John (Vol. 1, p. 203)