The book of Life is the book we read about in Revelation 20. It tells us that anyone whose name is not written in this book will be thrown into the lake of fire…
We have to do the correct things to get our name in the book of life. We will be judged by what we have done. As Lutherans we believe we are held in God’s hand by grace and it is not by works that we are saved, yet Revelation 20 tells us differently…
But it also says there are other books that are opened. They are not named but books are opened…
Makes me think about the trees in the garden of Eden… There are many trees, but there are 2 special trees… The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the tree at the center of the garden that God tells Adam and Eve to not eat from. And then at the end of Genesis 3 we hear about the other tree, the reason for humanities expulsion from the garden, the tree of eternal life. We could have been just like God if we would have eaten from the tree of eternal life, having the knowledge of good and evil…
But we have to watch what we do so we are judged good, or we can have faith in he promises of God and know that Jesus paid the price for us… Or we can worry about the other books listed in Revelation 20 and what they could mean for us… Or we can hope in the unseen things and have faith in the promises of God.
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