Living Forever

If our career plans involved a foreign assignment our desk would likely be littered with brochures and travel folders as we try to learn all we can about our forthcoming destination. Right?

If our lives depended on an exam we’d be studying in earnest. Right?

Yet the most single certain event in our future is one most of us try best to ignore and attempt to relegate to a comfortable distance.

We don’t think about death.

It’s not considered a pleasant subject and we avoid discussing it seriously or giving it any diligent study.

Yet our appointment with death is an absolute certainty – perhaps our only certainty!

It may come sooner than expected for any number of reasons and when it does finally come what do we expect?

Hate it or love it you can’t argue with the fact that the most studied book in the universe down through the ages has been the Bible. The Good News laid out in the Bible has changed the lives of millions of individuals and hundreds of nations.

These are likely the best known verses worldwide from the Bible – “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world but that the world would be saved through Him” – John 3/verses 16 and 17.

What does “saved” mean? Simply this – reconciled with our Creator, adopted into His family.

This is the Good News! Living forever!

Unlike earthly fathers there is no deed in life that God the Father cannot forgive when we turn our hearts to Him.  

What’s more “God is not one to show partiality”, Acts 10/34.

He reaches down into what could be called the pits of hell and brings life forever to murderers; he reaches into the hearts of those who seemingly have everything, for example legendary Australian women’s tennis champion Margaret Court who, when ranked number one women’s tennis player in the world, was marvellously reconciled with God.

You say nations too Steve? Yes! Here’s just one. I love my country of birth – Fiji. In the early 1830's the Good News was taken to Fiji, then home to arguably the worst cannibal peoples in the world, and within 50 years 90% of the population where worshipping God on a Sunday.

This remarkable move of God was ushered in by Him through members of the London Missionary Society who experienced incredible hardship and heart breaking loss of life. Fiji – the Friendly Isles!

There is so much evidence pointing to eternal life, living forever!

The turning point in my life was October 1977. I was 31 years of age, general manager of Connair, a small airline in the Northern Territory of Australia with a staff of 170 making us the largest private employer in the Territory. To an outsider it looked as though I had everything; a nice home, a pretty wife, a responsible job, lots of travel. Things were different inside though and that month, at a tent meeting held on Anzac oval in the centre of the town of Alice Springs, I made the best and most important decision of my life.

My encouragement to you is to apply the same diligence to this question of living forever as you would to a foreign assignment or an exam on which your life depended.

God answers the heart of those seeking the truth and if you haven’t made that best and most important decision of your life yet then now is a good time to get busy about it!

Here’s a good start.
Visit this link purposedrivenlife.com and download, free of charge, the first 7 chapters of The Purpose Driven Life.

This will be one of the most important decisions you make in your life!

If this page has sparked an interest to know more feel welcome to email me at steve@stevemarshallbooks.com