Long Life To Us All

Scripture:
Psalm 91:14-16 (NASB)

"Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.

"He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.

"With a long life I will satisfy him
And let him see My salvation."

Devotional:

Everyone wants long life.  In Psalm 91 God tells us that He will give long life to those who call upon Him.  Yet we see all over the world Godly men and women who seem to have lived short lives.  Our lives here on earth are numbered.  Nothing we can do will change that.  People seek eternal life, sometimes going to great lengths to find it.  In Indiana Jones the Last Crusade they find the Holy Grail.  In the movie there were Nazi leaders seeking the grail so that they could live forever.  Indiana was seeking his father, and in the end the grail as well.  It was a race to see who found it first.  When they found the grail, there was one of the Knights Templar who had lived for hundreds of years guarding it.  How many more books and movies have been written and made telling the tail of finding eternal youth and life.  

The good news is that we have found the fountain of youth.  We have long life.  As a matter of fact the life given to us never ends.  It isn’t hard to find at all.  Anyone can drink from its cup.  God promises us long life.  Sure some of us will live long lives here on earth.  But each of us will live for eternity in Heaven.  Well that is if you have accepted Christ as your savior.  Jesus is the key to long life.  Because we know Jesus we know God.  When we call upon Jesus we are calling upon God.  God promises to be there for us and to protect us.  He promises us long life.  All you have to do is accept. John 3:16-19 (NIV):

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.