Does God Give Us Eternal Life or can we lose it???
Posted : 17 Feb, 2012 08:07 PM
LEN'S LINES ---- A Little Religion On A Positive Note By Len Granger
God Gives Us Eternal Life
Recent reports on the population of the world indicate that people are living longer . Children being born this year could possibly see their 100th birthday as they live into the next century. The average life span over the past century has grown at an unbelievable 2.5 years a decade. Now we are told the social, political, environmental and economic ramifications of the futuristic fountain of youth should give us concern.
As we age, many people find themselves with the inability to face death and are willing to do anything to extend their life a few more sickly months. We all realize that a physical death will someday over take us , no matter how well we exercise, eat the right food stuff and plan for the future. We all should be prepared to meet our creator whatever our age, young or like me pushing 80 years, for we know not what the next day holds for us.
As Christians, we pray that we will walk in the footsteps of our Lord and Savior all our life. We do not know when he will call us home to be with him for eternity, but we put all our trust and faith in our Lord.
Spiritual death is not like physical death as we know it. We see in the Bible where body and soul are separate entities. 1 Corinthians, in the New Testament, 15:53 to 57 tells us " Death is swallowed up in victory". O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
We may have a physical body death but our Lord is there, if we accept him, to pick us up and take us to our heavenly home.
My relative, Noah Bacon on his 100th birthday, wrote this Poem to his future ancestors telling of his love for the Lord. He was born December 19, 1799 and was a known poet in his day, with this published in the Des Moines Register the largest newspaper in the state of Iowa. I am copying from the original aged yellowed paper with his signed greeting on the bottom and a personal letter on the back.
A Birthday Poem by N. H. Bacon written on his 100th Birthday.
My writing muse is ready to indite, my birthday song if I can see to write. == My age has made me almost deaf and blind, relatives and friends are all very kind.
The nineteenth of December is here, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine the year,== The evening of my life is calm and clear as my confidence in God has banished fear.
I have reached milestone one hundred, my waning life is an even spun thread. == In gladness of heart I eat my daily bread, by the kind hand of the Lord I am led.
From his garner I get my daily bread, from his vestry my raiment and my bed. == He pours his gracious blessing on my head, his impartial benefits on all are shed.
Of my wife and five children I am bereft, with only four kind loving sons to me are left. == Living grandchildren I have twenty-four, great-grand fifty-five, great-great six or more.
Many relatives and friends are now here, to celebrate my centennial year. == And drive away my sorrows and fear, and make this a day of joy and gladness.
Sublimity may grace the poet's pen, but plain truth is admired by all good men. == My poetry or notes in rhyme are brief view of past and present time.
The morning sun has reached its noon day tide, and I must lay my tell tale pen aside. == My muse has plumed its wing and flown away, and I can write no more today.
With love to relatives and social friends====My hasty written birthday poem ends.
1109 West Nineteenth Street, Des Moines, Iowa Dated, Dec 19, 1899
Compliments of author N, B, Bacon signed in pen by a man that loved the Lord and his family.
We trust this Sunday we will all be in the church of our choice, worshiping our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
