Dear Friends,

Has anyone ever said to you, “So you believe in eternal life! So what? What does it matter in the light of all the problems there are in this life?” Today’s devotional shows that eternal life matters tremendously. It gives meaning to this life. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,

John Janney

I Corinthians 15:1-58

“If death be final, what is life, with all

Its lavish promises, its thwarted aims,

Its lost ideals, its dishonored claims,

Its uncompleted growth? A prison wall,

Whose heartless stones but echo back our call;

An epitaph recording but our names;

A puppet-stage where joys and griefs and shames

Furnish a demon jesters’ carnival;

A plan without a purpose or a form;

A roofless temple; an unfinished tale.

And men like madrepores through calm and storm

Toil, die to build a branch of fossil frail,

And add from all their dreams, thoughts, acts, belief,

A few more inches to a coral-reef.”

[C. P. Cranch in The Speaker’s Bible XVI edited by James Hastings and Edward Hastings, (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, n.d.), p. 145]