Who Alone Has Immortality

"I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen." 1 Tim 6:13-16

Too often, I think, we get confused (or at least I get confused) over the immensity of who God is and what He provides. Take immortality. It seems to be a fairly clear reading of Scripture that we all are eternal beings and that when we die we will live forever either in the presence of God or eternally separated from Him. This, of course is the urgency and importance of the gospel.

But pause for a moment and consider the eternalness itself. What keeps it going? What keeps our eternal hearts beating? What keeps the eternal cities functioning? Even more pressing, what keeps us from falling through the floor of heaven? What keeps the chasm fixed between heaven and hell?

The answer, I submit, is Jesus. We do not posses immortality in ourselves. We do not posses righteousness in ourselves. We do not posses anything in ourselves. Everything we have, here or in eternity, is a gracious gift from God. And Jesus is its source, eternally. This, of course, why Paul calls for us to worship the One "who dwells in unapproachable light"

To God Alone be the Glory