I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
Revelation 1:18
I’m not really into computer games, but I do know people who are addicted to them. One particularly dangerous game is Candy Crush. The idea is that as candy appears on the screen, the good stuff is collected with a flick of the thumb without touching poison; that will kill you. But not to worry, you’re given five lives.
Technically, the game is free. The iPad app is free, playing time is free, and additional lives are free. The loophole comes in the fact that, if someone loses his five lives, there is a waiting period of one half an hour before he can get another life. Since lives come five at a time, that means being offline two and one half hours. That seems like an awful long time when a player is almost to the next level, so for just 99 cents automatically billed to the credit card, the gaming addict can continue without the distraction of returning to reality.
One man was billed $236 in one month for all those extra lives, and another man literally ruptured a tendon in his thumb for playing “Crush” non-stop for days at a time. (He needed surgery to regain use of his hand). People will pay a lot to continue to live just a little longer in their own fantasy world, but they always die again and again.
People would pay millions to get another physical life, if that was for sale, but they would still just die again another day.
Jesus lives and was dead. But that’s not the amazing part. He conquered death, drained it of its power, and is Alive Forevermore.
If medical science could stop the aging process and find a cure for every disease that exists, everyone would still die someday. The good news is that true life is not found in our feeble bodies; it’s found in our souls and spirits. Christ came to this world to bring us life in abundance. Eternal life begins now, gets better every day, and lasts forever. Even when the body breaks down and is buried, we, through the Savior, can be alive forevermore.
November 17
