Men die; God doesn't

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Men die; God doesn’t. At least that’s how it normally works. Yet God, who is One, gave part of Himself, a part of the Trinity, Jesus, to die for us. One who wouldn’t die naturally died willingly and left us the inheritance God prepared for Him.

Why the statement of the obvious? I was reading in Hebrews this morning and the very beginning caught my attention. The phrase that captured it was “His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things” (NASB). Yes. I’ve read that before, but this time, instead of the first part where the Word relates that God “in these last days has spoken to us in His Son,” I focused on what followed. And then it struck me. God didn’t have to appoint an heir because He is eternal. Who has a need for an heir if there is to be no death? Yet the heir He appointed is also the One who died and also received the inheritance. It defies any human logic that exists, but that is God. He can and does and will continue to do so.

God created the universe (through Christ). Just as God spoke to man through prophets long ago, He spoke to men through Christ when He walked the earth. Just as men served as priests in the Old Testament, Christ performed priestly duties by purifying us of our sins through His death on the cross. He made us clean. That’s no small enterprise, but He’s God. He can do what He wants to do when He wants to do it, and no, that’s not an arbitrary thing.

So, the eternal God of the universe chose to send His son to die for our sins, and when Jesus returned, His work finished (except for the holding up all things by who He is with His power – verse 3), He sat down at the right hand of God, sending the third part of the Trinity to earth to comfort and guide the Ones He died to save. I’m glad I don’t understand the Trinity. If I did, and it was easily explained, then maybe this salvation wouldn’t be worth the explaining, but it is worth it—even though I can’t explain it.

Men die; God lives. Because God lives, we have life after death. An inheritance in heaven.


God is good!

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