You offer me....

"You offer me eternity, but why should I buy that?" sings Jars of Clay in one of their classic songs. It is a good question. What is the value of salvation if it is focused on the eternality of the hereafter? To whose good do we last forever, for own benefit, perhaps, sitting in mansions, crowns atop, sipping on the lamb's finest vintage. Is this really what God had in mind when before the foundations of the world He determined to send His Son for us?

What value do you place on salvation? Why are you saved, O Man? (Rev. 22:12)