God Has Placed Eternity In All Hearts

126 - Today's Prime Time Devo comes from 1Ti 4:7-9, “But reject profane and old wives' fables, and exercise yourself toward godliness. 8 For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. 9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance.” (1 Tim 4:7-9) Exercising your body profits much in this life, but exercising oneself toward godliness profits in this life and the next! This saying is worthy of all acceptance! In my mind there's a couple of ways of looking at this. The obvious one is that this saying is worth noting in it's totality. But it's also something that every human being should be willing to accept. “All should accept this basic truth.” The basic truth is there is more to life than the here and now! It's true some may scoff at the idea of an life in the hereafter. They live by the creed: “You only go around once, grab all the gusto you can!” But underneath their bravado and their hardened heart is the truth spelled out in Ec 3:11, “ He has put eternity in their hearts,” For others that truth is more evident and so they invent religions of good works in an attempt to ink there reservation in Nirvana. But the Holy Spirit, speaking through the Apostle Paul spells out the one exercise that profits both now and for eternity. That of godliness. The godliness that is summed up in the credal statement of 1 Tim 3:16, Believe that Jesus is God manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, (rose from the dead) seen by angels, (that is, the Apostles, after His resurrection,) preached among the Gentiles by these apostles, and subsequently by the church. This eternal life saving message was believed in the world, and this same Jesus was received up in glory from whence He shall come again to judge the living and the dead. Eternity is at stake! Where will you spend it? What will you do with this Jesus and His message? Jesus said in Joh 12:48 "He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him--the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.” Believe these basic truths about Jesus, for this is exercising yourself toward godliness.