How dreary the prospects of the unsaved who have no hope of future existence! The light of life is eclipsed in darkness, the measured poetry of earthly existence turns into a jargon of confusion, and all the exquisite harmonies of life burst into a melancholy minor wail. Trembling with fear, their spirits cry out, “Where am I going? Where?” and echo mocks them with the question, “Where?” They try to satisfy their souls by answering themselves -- “all is uncertainty, all is dark.”

 

Thank God! The Bible does not leave Christians to float around in such a sea of doubt and uncertainty. “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” The Word of God answers the universal longing of humanity by “bringing life and immortality to light through the gospel,” thus illuminating our pathway and guiding us unerringly into the world beyond, with the clearest promises of a future life and of everlasting reward.