This assurance overshadows all other promises and rightly so
because for this very reason the Lord Jesus came to world, linking it directly
to his life, death, and resurrection.
The gospel doesn’t guarantee blessed health or healing or
economic prosperity, but it does assure an ageless eternity in the service of
and in fellowship with God, when there will be no more death or mourning or
crying or pain.
In this life death must have its way, diseases and hardships
must run their due course because we live in a cursed world and we are just
reaping what our sins deserve.
Eternal life was never a safeguard against the ills of life
on earth, although incorporated in it are an imperishable body and an unimaginable
inheritance, but all looking forward to the blessed hope, the glorious
appearing of the Lord Jesus at the end of the age.
