Friday 1/6/12

1 John 5:11-13 ESV

And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

These verses remind us that we have eternal life in Jesus Christ, that we do not have to fear death, and this current life in this sinful world is not all there is. This current life is temporary, for a season. We will have eternal life in God, in the new heaven and earth He will create.

With temporal life vs eternal life in mind, we can live this temporal life more meaningful and avoid the vanities of life. We can focus more on building up our treasure in Heaven, rather than earthly wealth (which we will lose) and enjoy earthly (sometime sinful) pleasure.