Friday 21 Sep 2012

Friday Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-5

Key Verse: 1 Peter 1:4
4  To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

Devotion:
There have been and continue to be many people who would say that we can lose our faith or lose our position in heaven. Once God has given us a position in heaven it is secure and eternal; it is incorruptible. If it were not so that Christ’s persecution, death, burial and resurrection would be to no effect! How can we ever even think that is so!

Instead we have an eternal position that awaits us if we chose to follow Christ. That place that we call heaven is not ever going to fade away and is not ever going to be corrupted by anything that we do or say here on earth! Yes we can reject it in the beginning as we will never get to see it – so we may well think of it as not being real. But if I were to take that same logic then I can say that Australia is not real because I have not been there or seen it… You and I both know that that is not the case because many of you actually live there! So how can we then say that heaven is not real?

The fact that Australia is real is not because I believe it or even because it was ‘discovered’ by some great explorer. God was the one who created this world and He knew exactly what should be there in the beginning and what will be there in the end. God is the one who has allowed men to explore and to evangelise. People all over the world continue to choose to forget about this Creator God and choose instead to believe in various fantasies about how things come into being. We are not here because of some strange happenings be them random or by some strange gods; instead we are here because God has ordained it.

God created this world and He continues to make sure that this world exists in the way that it does. We may well be hell bent on destroying much of it and many of the people that currently occupy it, but it continues to be made available to us because that is God’s choice! In the same manner heaven is a place that will continue to be and will continue to be made available to those who choose to follow Christ, to believe that he is the Son of God and that He chose to die for us, to be buried and to raise Himself up so that He can pay for our debt to God the Father. Is that not great love?

Points to Ponder:
Do you have doubts?

What would you do if God doubted you?