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Luke 23:43
Luke 23:35-43
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Benjamin Franklin, who had a great fondness for books, wrote an epitaph for himself, which he hoped would be placed on his grave. It read,
The body of Benjamin Franklin, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here for the worms; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by the author.
Benjamin Franklin was right: “The work itself shall not be lost!” Benjamin Franklin shall not be lost! you shall not be lost! I shall not be lost! God, our father, will not abandon us. Christ, our King, promises us New Life in His eternal Kingdom of Love. And Christ, our King, asks us for a genuine faith response to that promise. Now!
Over-and-over again in the Gospels, the same lesson comes through: Genuine faith in the promise of new…
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