Today’s devotion comes from Hebrews 11:17-19.
“By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; it was he to whom it was said, “In Isaac your descendants shall be called.” He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type.” Hebrews 11:17-19.
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By faith, we believe that God is able to even raise people from the dead. We need that faith in order to believe that despite our death we will go to heaven. Abraham needed that faith in order to believe that despite his offering of Isaac he would have descendants through Isaac.
We profess to the world our faith in the resurrection of the body and life everlasting every time we confess the Apostle’s Creed: “I believe in … the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. AMEN.”
We profess to the world our comfort in the resurrection of the body and life everlasting every time we confess the Heidelberg Catechism:
Question 57. What comfort doth the “resurrection of the body” afford thee?
Answer. That not only my soul after this life shall be immediately taken up to Christ its head; but also, that this my body, being raised by the power of Christ, shall be reunited with my soul, and made like unto the glorious body of Christ.
Question 58. What comfort takest thou from the article of “life everlasting”?
Answer. That since I now feel in my heart the beginning of eternal joy, after this life, I shall inherit perfect salvation, which “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man” to conceive, and that, to praise God therein for ever.
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