In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. Titus 1:2
Almost every week or two, we read of new discoveries by the scientists who explore the vastness of outer space. Their telescopes and other instruments detect new things, and upon those discoveries, those experts come up with new and strange explanations and theories. Interestingly, each new discovery and idea seems to contradict or change what was understood just a few weeks earlier. Astronomy must be the most inexact science there is. And when you insert the ever changing and always foolish theories of men regarding how it all came about, astronomy becomes even more confusing and self contradictory. If only those people would grasp the fact that the big bang is in the future, not in the past! All we can learn from modern astronomy is that we can’t trust anything that any of the so-called experts are saying about it. How good, then, that there is One in Whose words we can have the utmost confidence! And how glorious that one of those things He has told us is a promise of eternal life!
According to John 3:16, we entered into everlasting life at the moment we were saved. And we often regret that we were not saved earlier. But we know that everlasting life did not begin when we were saved, or even with the Lord Jesus died for our sins on the cross. No, our text declares that the promise of eternal live is an eternal promise, predating creation, and even time itself. There was never a point in time or in all of eternity that God did not have eternal life in mind for us. That is why our Bibles are filled with this promise, pictured and prophesied throughout the entire Old Testament, and presented in the very person of the Lord Jesus in the New Testament. When the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world (1 John 4:14), He fulfilled the greatest promise ever made. Consider the grace that was behind this great promise. Adam’s fall in Eden did not come as any surprise to God; He knew all about it long before He suspended our earth in space. And yet, He purposed and promised a Saviour, and delivered on His promise.
We have eternal life. It rests on the promise of God Who cannot lie. How wonderful is that? – Jim MacIntosh