Life Eternal Like Returning Trees

Example 2. Again he says: “There were quite a few who were doubtful about the future life, some who were dreading the things that lie ahead of us. This is what I said to give them certain hope in Christ Jesus— “*The cottonwood trees have come into their springtime green. During the winter as we have looked at them, sometimes it has seemed almost impossible that those dead-looking, bare limbs would ever be clothed in their fluttering garments of green.

Yet the miracle has been wrought and we rejoice in their beauty and shade. “*But the umbrella trees have not a single leaf on them.

Yet those umbrella trees can say, “Because the Cottonwoods live and have come into new life, clad with new leaves, we shall live also and do the same thing. The very same life that is in them is in us also.” “Eternal life seems so far away from us. But when we con- template the One who is eternally alive, Who now liveth never to die any more, we say, “Because He lives, we shall live also.

The very same life that is in Him is in us. We have been born again and are now of that nature that the Father has given us, sons of God.”’ “Just a simple fact of the life they knew and yet it brought to all of us a new conviction of the certainty of the future life, of our resurrection with Him.”