Heaven Land Devotions - I Am Now Ready To Be Offered

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When Paul the Apostle sat in a dark Roman prison awaiting his death the following day, he wrote a letter. He made perfect and good use of his time, right up until the end. He was truly the Lord's servant. In that prison letter he was giving Timothy instructions on pastoralship.

At the final ending of that letter Paul speaks these beautiful words in peaceful resignation. He did not allow Timothy or the many Believers who revered and loved him to be dismayed by his sufferings, or shocked at his painful death.

He showed them, by his calm, triumphant language, that to him death was no terror, but only the appointed passage to glory. So he speaks of his life-blood being shed, under the well-known peaceful image of the wine poured out over the sacrifice, the drink offering, the sweet savor unto the Lord. He speaks of His approaching death of agony and shame under a quiet, homely kind of image.

There is great beauty and force in the expressions which he uses for death here. Notice he does not use that word 'death" but instead calls it an offering and a departure. He thinks of life as a race. That speaks of continuous advance in one direction, He thinks of it as a stewardship. He has kept the faith. Death to a good man or woman, is their release from the imprisonment of this world, and their departure to the enjoyments of another world.

As a Christian, and a minister, Paul had kept the faith, kept the doctrines of the gospel. What comfort will it afford, to be able to speak in this manner toward the end of our days. The more accurate and more forcible translation would be rendered in the Greek, "For I am already being offered."

It points to the drink offering of wine which, among the Jews, accompanied the sacrifice. In other words, his being offered up had already been happening. "Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all."

You see, all your life many of you have taken the position of faithfulness. You have born the battles and the heat of the days on earth. You have been persecuted and taken it patiently. In essence, you too have been being offered up to God all along.

A day will come when you will pass from this life into eternal life, from this world into another world....heaven. Let your final words be like Paul's. As you have "offered up your life to the sacrifice and service of others." As you slip into eternity to receive the reward of your inheritance with the saints in light. Life everlasting.

“The best moment of a Christian’s life is his last one, because it is the one that is nearest heaven.” ~Charles Spurgeon