Value of Eternal Life

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 24, 1869

Value of Eternal Life.

WHAT words can express the value of that life which shall never end? We can never even begin to appreciate its infinite worth till we have entered upon its possession. And though we can never thereafter lose it, yet how small a part of it can we ever possess! Even the immortal saints shall never know only the beginning of eternal life! For however long they be conceived of as living in its possession, there still lies before them an absolutely infinite period in comparison with which, what they have already passed is only an atom of time, a point, a moment, an instant. Life without end! What a thought that this may be ours! Life forevermore! What a length of duration is this! Our Lord gives unto his people eternal life. What a gift of infinite worth! That we may thus live, he makes us immortal, i. e., incapable of dying.

Sin being the cause of death to our race, before this deathless state is secured to the righteous, all sin must be removed from them, and all evil taken out of their hearts. Then when all is just as God would have it, and the trial is complete, the people of God are confirmed in virtue, and the seal of immortality is put upon them. The rest of mankind, being chaff, tares and stubble, are devoured in the unquenchable fire.