Fading Away

If you are anything like me you carefully apply your makeup in the morning and then dash on with your day. Later, you walk past a mirror, check your face and recoil as you realize your carefully applied makeup has now faded. ( If you are a man reading this, stay with it, there is truth for you too.)

Unlike our face, there is something that is ours that will not fade away - our heavenly inheritance. The Lord tells us through Peter in 1 Peter 3:3,4 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible (imperishable) and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you."

Think about this for just a moment. Your inheritance is not subject to decay and will endure permanently. I cannot think of anything that is exempt from perishing. Fruit, vegetables, clothing and even those things that would perish more slowly would still perish by fire or other external circumstances. Our own physical bodies are perishing daily. The apostle Paul says "Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day."
(2 Corinthians 4:16) Contrary to all that is perishable our inheritance is not. Nothing can destroy it or change it. It is reserved in heaven for you.

Life is tough and we are grieved by various trials as Peter tells us in this chapter. There are so many negative things that come into our day - things that can really weigh us down but the joy and good news if you know Christ as your Savior is that you "are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."(1 Peter 3:5)

So Ladies, next time you apply your makeup, be reminded of your heavenly inheritance. It will never fade away.