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Question 58

Eternal life is our joyful hope

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Day 22 • Question 58
58 What comfort do you receive from the article about the life everlasting?
Since I now already feel in my heart the beginning of eternal joy, 1 I shall after this life possess perfect blessedness, such as no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived – a blessedness in which to praise God forever. 2

Footnote 1
John 17:3
And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:2-3
For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked.
Footnote 2
John 17:24
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
1 Corinthians 2:9
But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"--
Question 58
Eternal life is our joyful hope
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