Daily Devotions

John 3: 16For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

This is the proclamation by Jesus Christ giving us a clear outline of His mission when He came to earth as the confirmation of God’s plan for all sinners. We also know that without Jesus we too have no hope of salvation and eternal life.

But praise God that with the coming of Jesus, we now have the assurance as Jesus proclaimed in John 11: 25-26 “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die.”

This is the hope and promise that we have; as long as we believe in Jesus and put our trust in Him, then we would be assured of this eternal life and we would not have to suffer eternal death in Hell.

Though this is the case, nevertheless to gain eternal life, there needs to be a crossing over from the realm of the natural to the realm of the supernatural. This means that the only way to inherit eternal life is that we must leave this perishable body behind and only then can we cross over an inherit eternal life.

This is important for us to remember and not to hold too tight to earth things which are all perishable. What the world can offer may be attractive today but it can be gone tomorrow. Look at the effects of the destructive forces of nature and also the destructive forces of riots and war.

All these forces which are unpredictable can occur at any one time without giving any form of notice. One moment it is there and the next moment it can be gone and destroyed forever.

While we understand this assurance from Jesus Christ, we must respond to it by separating ourselves away from the distraction and bondage of the world and to focus on securing the promise of Jesus Christ instead.