There are some things we can’t do without.
We love GPS and the ability to enter a location into our electronic devices, and have a friendly voice direct us along our route. However, if the satellites fell out of the sky, we’d be stranded without a hope of reaching our desired destination.
Our automatic vacuums, or coffeepots that turn themselves on and off? When the computer chips go, they are useless, unable to make even one decision without their electronic brains.
We’ve made these things essential to our way of life, and there’s nothing bad about that. We read the Bible on our electronic tablets, automatically donate to the church from our bank accounts, and communicate with loves ones across the continent or across the sea.
Yet, if our electronics went dead, we’d be lost without them. Cut out the essential part—the core of the machine—and the rest is junk.
What part of us is junk? Or, to put it a different way, what part of our personal selves here on earth do we need to protect most ardently, because without it, there is no point to the rest?
What is the core of who we are?
Revelation 20:4 talks about those who were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God. Ouch. Talk about cutting off the essential part! Yet, is it possible only the useless parts were cast aside, and the best lived on? The verse goes on to tell us that they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Interesting. Once the useless body was cast aside, the spirit could then reign with Jesus. What we need to protect is our spirit. It’s the core of who we are.
Hebrews 9:27 assures us we will die, and after that, the core of who we are will face judgement.
How can we make sure we don’t have a reason to dread that day? Acts 2:38 encourages us to 1. repent; 2. be baptized; 3. receive the Holy Spirit.
If we do that, we will have the promise given to us in Revelation 1:18, where Jesus says he died, and yet he is alive forevermore.
Jesus is the promise we cannot do without. If he is removed from our lives, the rest is all junk.
Let’s not forget to keep Jesus as the core of who we are.
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