| | The Son of God is not a vapor. He is solid reality, with no
beginning and no ending. His name is Jesus Christ. He is
the same yesterday and today and forever. He looked His
disciples in the eye and said without irony or exaggeration,
“Before Abraham was, I am.”
But what about us? Once we were not, and now we
exist? With the conception of all five of our children, that
stunned me. Suddenly my wife is pregnant. A human has
come into being. For how long? Forever. Either in heaven
or in hell. There is no going out of existence. For that
would not be joy for those who love God nor punishment
for those who don’t.
You exist forever. There is no use protesting that you
did not ask to exist and would like not to. That is not an
option. You and God are both in the universe to stay—
either as friends on His terms, or enemies.
Which it will be is proven in this life. And this life is a
vapor. Two seconds, and we will be gone—to heaven or to
hell. “As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like
a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is
gone” (Psalm 103:15–16).
Jesus Christ came into this world—this fleeting, fallen,
fickle world—and did the greatest thing that will ever be
done. As the perfect Son of God, He died in our place,
absorbed the wrath of God, paid the penalty for sin, provided
the righteousness of the law, and rose invincible
from the dead—all in a vapor’s life of thirty-three years.
Because of that, we have something firm to grasp.
“Surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower
fades, but the word of our God will stand forever” (Isaiah
40:7–8). The gospel is firm and lasts forever. My prayer is
that these meditations on the Word of God will link you
with eternal joy, and make the vapor of your life an everlasting
aroma of praise to the glory of Christ.
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