The Believer’s Hope and Promise

The Savior’s heart loves you. The Father’s hands hold you. And then there’s the believer’s hope. Just as Jesus prayed, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit,” we know our spirits belong to God. This is the part of you—the spirit, the soul—that will live forever. Your body will die, but your soul is made to know, love, and experience God’s presence. Your soul will live on.
Death is the final enemy. Death is a terrorist—the Bible calls it the king of terrors. But in the midst of all this terror, death, and hell, Jesus died in peace with a simple prayer He learned as a child: “Into Your hands I commit My spirit.” At the cross we discover that death does not have the final say! Jesus has the final word! Death is powerless, and our decaying, dying bodies will one day be raised because Christ is raised.
You have to do more than die to go to heaven—you must receive the love of Jesus Christ, believe and trust in Him who died for you and rose again. As Christ followers, we won’t die by the will of cancer or the power of disease or some random accident. We’ll die as Jesus died—to fulfill our destiny, on time. Psalm 31:15 tells us our times are in His hands. We’re not promised an easy landing, but we are promised a safe landing.
“Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.” That’s a prayer to live by. It’s a prayer to die by. It teaches us how to live in following Christ and how to die in following Christ.