"God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen."
1 Timothy 6:15b,16 (NIV)
Who is this God we worship? Who is this God who chooses us in Christ before the creation of the world? We are so blessed that God made Himself flesh and appeared among us as a human, and yet we make a huge mistake if we think of Him in human terms.
God is spirit and He is the only One who is immortal. Nothing can kill God! Time kills us, but time can’t kill Him. Nature kills us, but nature can’t kill Him. Humans can kill us, but humans can’t touch Him. Death cannot touch God; He made death, and He will destroy death.
We tell each other ghost stories, and our imaginations run wild with all sorts of creatures that have some form of existence apart from our physical world. Yet in every one of those movies and stories there is someone or something that can end their existence. God and only God is immortal, and because of this truth about God, we can look forward with Paul to the day that our mortality is clothed with God’s immortality – that day when death is swallowed up in victory!
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