Hope While Returning To Dust

Right after sin entered the world God told Adam the curse that sin would bring. 

Gen. 3:19  “By the sweat of your face You shall eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”

A life of hard work ending in death is the fate of every everyone. This is happening to us. To all of us. All the time. We are dying in this body. God had given the tree of life in the garden so that we might live. But God did not want sinful man to live forever, so the tree was lost. So we die.

But thanks be to God that He is merciful, and gracious and gives us time to do something about it. God lets our dying be slow. 

2 Pet. 3:15  “and regard the patience of our Lord to be salvation…”

God gives us time. And God gives us Christ.

1 Cor. 15:22  “For as in Adam all die……..so also in Christ all shall be made alive.”

In Christ, there is a way for us in this dying body to find life anew., peace again with God, purpose and ultimately glorification. 

Thanks be to God for all that is offered to us in Christ Jesus.