Call me morbid, but the first time I heard the famous song, “Live Like You Were Dying,” I thought, “Well . . . we are.” We are all dying, day by day, until we wind up in the grave or Jesus comes back again.
The aim of the song, of course, is to encourage people to make the most of their lives. It’s a good goal, but believers have an even better one: to live like death isn’t the end of our stories.
The passage we’ve been studying in this Journey Theme, 1 Corinthians 15, leads us to this truth: eternity as reality changes our future and our present.
It’s true we are all dying. As Romans 6:23 explains, “the wages of sin is death.” Day by day, as we sin and are affected by sin, we pay up. We get wrinkly. We develop more aches. We experience the consequences of sin and they wear us down.
But praise God, death isn’t where the verse, or our experience, ends…
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