Category: Devotions

It is with great rejoicing that the people of God give praise to the power of the gospel to save lost souls. It is first of all imbibed then lovingly offered to others. And the exhortation is that the people of God be kept strong in the Lord and be kept strong fervently serving the Lord.

All that the believer does as unto the Lord for His honour and glory constitutes the believer’s new life in Christ. He is exhorted to keep relying on the Lord through prayer and to do all in accordance with God’s Word. This constitutes the good work of the believer that the Apostle Paul encourages should abound.

Death is no longer an impasse for the Christian, God has provided for His people a comprehensive solution. We are going to inherit an incorruptible body, a new body, no more aches and pains, a body that will last us for eternity. This is the promise of God in the preceding text.

We live in a world where the line of truth is blurred and men call good evil and evil good. A time likened to the days before God sent the global flood to destroy the known world wherein Noah and his family of 8 were saved when they got into the ark before the rain came.

God provided the way out of man’s misery through our Lord Jesus Christ. What great news! What relief! Just when it seemed impossible for mankind to be freed from the curse of sin which is death and eternal hell-fire, God enacted a most unfathomable mission to send His Son to save the world. Sin and death is a conquered foe!

And it is the law of God that helps us to know the will of God so that we may see by the standard of the law that we are miserable sinners. It shows our weakness and failure to obtain righteousness with God by the keeping of the law. We fail miserably. And because of our sins that death falls upon us. And the law shows our inability to find righteousness with God but to seek it through Jesus Christ, as revealed in the gospel. Thank God the sting of sin is overcome by Jesus Christ. Indeed, the just shall live by faith in Jesus Christ’s finished work of redemption. Amen.

Death is a great nullifier. All that the man has, he leaves behind. Naked he came and naked he went. A sobering truth that jolts one to think of the meaning of life and its purpose. Such a question is posed by the preaching of the gospel to the miserable man, confronted with the prospect of death so that he may understand there is a solution that God has devised for his salvation. And the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after he died, provides that solution and signals that victory. Death is no longer a sting to the believer in Jesus Christ. Jesus will bring about the resurrection, remake of a glorious, incorruptible body for the soul that dies in Christ. This is the hope that is put forth for our encouragement.

And Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

What an elusive word “immortality”! An impossibility. How could mortal man put on immortality? Death is still an impossible impasse today. The best scientists together could not prolong life beyond the limit of 120 years old given in Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

The time when the church of Jesus Christ shall be taken to heaven (born-again believers both dead (asleep) and the alive) will be preceded by a trumpet sound. The Apostle Paul called it “the last trump”.