Reality Check

We are all going to die and there is nothing that we can do to stop it. This world will come to an end for us, or, as Paul puts it in 2 Cor 4.16, our outer self is wasting away. The gospel (and Paul!) gives us hope despite this harsh fact. Paul doesn't leave us with the fact that the outer self is wasting away. He writes that, if we have come to faith in Christ, then the inner self is being renewed day by day. Where the one version of life on this earth is temporal, for Christians, eternal life not only awaits, but we are being prepared for it day-by-day now! Wrap your brain around that fact!