Life After Death

Do the possibilities of what lies beyond death make a difference in how you live your life? Discuss.

Truthfully, I think my calling from God is to live a life here, in this creation, following God’s leading. I believe in life beyond death, and am grateful for it, but it doesn’t concern my thoughts very much. I can leave it in God’s hands. What I hope influences the way I life my life is God’s presence, now, here, and how I should respond to it.

 

If anything about life after death makes a difference in how I live it is my gratitude for all of God’s grace, including that. I remember in the Wesley Beliefs class, reading about Wesley’s determination that we should, through grace, have an assurance of God’s saving grace for us. If I have assurance of God’s salvation, including life after death, then I can act out of gratitude.  I can contrast this to the idea of living in fear of hell, and how that might change the way I live my life.  This assurance Wesley talks about can free us from that fear.