Promised Eternal Life

1Jn 2:24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
1Jn 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
1Jn 2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

The truth has forever been in the beginning.
Our Savior brought the truth with Him, He was and is the truth.
Salvation in Him is our only hope and this is the gospel of the kingdom which Jesus came to preach to us.
We continue forever in the Son and in the Father with we continue in the truth given to us at the beginning.
Eternal life is the promise given in truth and we can never forget it.
We are NOT promised anything here and now.
We are not promised good health, great wealth, love from others, intelligence. We are NOT promised these things in fact of ALL the many followers, the many believers of our Savior - as the Messiah to come and the Messiah having come- very few have been given all those things- VERY FEW. The majority are the average, humble people who have nothing of great prestige upon earth. We are PROMISED only eternal life through our Savior and what an amazing gift that is.
Often we lose sight of the big picture because we are so caught up in the little one- our life here and now. We think our life here and now is the big picture but it's not, not if we believe- truly believe and have faith in our Savior and His promise.

The promise is ETERNAL LIFE, not a good life now.

And those that would seduce us want us to believe that this life here and now is all that matters and if we are not given great rewards now but rather made to live a life of poverty, of illness, of mental and emotional trauma, that we are somehow disappointing God and He is punishing us now.

It's not unheard of that God works in our lives and we have the Bible, His word telling us how He's worked in the past and with that in mind we know His hand guides all we do. Some of us are meant to fill the role of the needy, and it's not because God hates us. God wants to save us all and He will do, and has done all He can for us. We have to trust Him fully, not ourselves and not other people, but GOD.

We have to keep what we hear from the beginning.
We have to keep the truth we heard from the start.
We have to keep the gospel of the kingdom in our lives as it first rang out in our hearts, giving us a new birth, a spiritual birth, a new life in Christ our SAVIOR!

All in HIM!

Always!