92. Live Forever
John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever, and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
John 6:57, 58 He that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
Living Forever is the dream and hope of all people everywhere and at all times. Life after death, the afterlife, is the unquenchable hope within the heart. As the King James Version says in Ecclesiastes: “Eternity is in their hearts.” It takes a heap of unbelief and denial to disbelieve in life after death. And no matter how oppressive the worldly empire ruling over us it is difficult to suppress this hope.
The amazing Good News of Jesus is that you will live forever. All men yearn to hope such a thing could be true, wish it could be true, and want to believe it; but that hope is disappointed until they hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Then, when what they could only wish were true, they find out it really is true an overwhelming sense of awe and gratefulness washes over the soul. On hearing from Jesus they say, “What I always hoped were true is true: I will live forever.”
One of the implications of life forever is that what happens during our lifetime is vitally important, for every event, every word, and every deed has meaning. Forever makes each passing moment pregnant with meaning. Every little thing affects eternity. It is valuable enough to drive us to desire to keep Jesus in our focus every minute.