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“Why stand we in jeopardy [danger] every hour?…Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die” (1 Corinthians 15:30,32).
The Christian pathway through this world is not an easy one, and there are often dangers as we seek to avoid the pitfalls around us and walk to please the Lord. If there is no resurrection of the dead, Paul argues, why should we take such a path? Why not just enjoy ourselves, eat and drink, and then die?
If there were no resurrection of the dead, this kind of thinking might make sense, and in fact, many in this world are adopting it today. Satan has persuaded them that death is the end of everything, so why not just have a good time, and then die? But the Word of God clearly says, “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). As someone has remarked, the Christian pathway is well worthwhile, even if it were much harder than it is, because it ends in glory. But the pathway of the unbeliever is not worthwhile, for he is trading a few years of enjoyment in this world for an awful eternity in hell.
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