Let Us Place Our Future In Jesus' Hands

A well-known scientist contends that science and technology hold the key to immortality. This gentleman lives on a strict diet enhanced with a regimen of supplements, fully convinced that he will be alive when the immortality breakthrough occurs.

In contrast to his optimism about what science can do, stands the stark reality of the inspired writer Moses:

“The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.” (Psalm 90:1).

At best, we live a few decades and then we are gone like the grass (Isaiah 40:7-8). It’s far better to place our future in the hands of Jesus, who promises to join us to the timeless realm of God. He once told His disciples:

“If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:3).

Beloved, as followers of Christ, we live with the assurance that when this universe is dissolved, we shall be alive (2 Peter 3:10-14; cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). Thus we eagerly look forward to and anticipate a life greater than anything we can ever imagine here on earth (Revelation 21:1-7).

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets