REACH OUT FOR "THE REAL LIFE"

Jehovah rewards his faithful servants with life, but life of what kind?  Well, are you really living now?  Most of us would say that the answer is obvious.  After all, we breathe, eat, and we drink.  Surely we must be living.  And in our happier moments, we may even say, "Now this is really living!"  However, the Bible  indicates that in an important sense, no human today is really living.

God's Word urges us to "get a firm hold on the real life."  (1 Timothy 6:19) Those words indicate that "the real life" is something we hope to attain in the future. Yes, when we are perfect, we will be alive in the fullest sense of the word, for we will be living as God originally intended us to live.  When we are living on a paradise earth in complete health, peace, and happiness, we will at last enjoy "the real life"-everlasting life.  (1 Timothy 6;12)  Is that not a wonderful hope?

How can we "get firm hold on the real life"?  In the same context, Paul urged Christians  "to work at good" and "to be rich in fine works." (1 Timothy 6:18)  Clearly, then, much depends  on how we apply the truths we have learned from the Bible.  But did Paul mean that we earn "the real life" by performing good works? No, for such marvelous prospects really depend on our receiving "undeserved kindness" from God.  (Romans 5:15) However, Jehovah delights in rewarding those who serve him faithfully.  He wants to see you live "the real life." Such a happy, peaceful, everlasting life lies ahead for those who remain in God's love. 

Each of us does well to ask himself, 'Am I worshiping God in the way he has set out in the Bible?  If we make sure, day by day, that the answer is yes, then we are on the right path.  We can be confident that Jehovah is our refuge.  he will keep his faithful people safe through the last troubled days of this old system of things now near.  How thrilled we will be to see that time!  And how delighted we will be that we made the right choices during these last days!  If you make such choices now, you will enjoy "the real life, " life as Jehovah God meant it to be, throughout all eternity!

Next time: THE BOOK OF DANIEL AND YOU,  Chapter One

From the Book:PAY ATTENTION TO DANIEL'S PROPHECY! 1999