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Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to live forever? That’s what immortality is - not being “mortal” so you never die. The word immortality comes from the Latin in meaning “not” and mors meaning “death.”

Do you know any person who is immortal? I’m thinking the answer is no, since only God is truly immortal. God, in fact, is eternal - He has no beginning and He has no end. Although in the Old Testament humans lived for many hundreds of years, they were not immortal. For example, Abraham lived to be 175 years old, Adam lived to be 930 years old, and Noah lived to be 950 years old. While that would be a seriously long time to live, even 950 years old comes nowhere close to being immortal.

So why is immortality important? There are two reasons that I can think of. First, God is immortal. That means He always was, He always is, and He always will be. No one will ever outlive God. He will always be here for us, taking care of us and loving us and being the almighty magnificent God of the universe.

Second, we can have immortality. Wait, what? Didn’t I just say that no person is immortal? Yes, I did. But we can be given immortality as a gift from God, since He is immortal. All of us will die so we won’t be immortal on this earth, but we will live on after this earth. If we have faith in Jesus, we will be immortal in heaven; if we reject Jesus, we will be immortal in the eternal torment of hell. (Want more on hell? Check out last week’s blog posts.)

Immortality is not something we tend to think of as part of the human experience, because we will die from this earth. But immortality is still a very real thing in the heavenly sense!