This is the first entry in a new series starting up here on the Infinite Life blog called “Save Points.” Each entry in this series will be shorter in length and feature a gaming theme. A new Save Point will be posted each Tuesday at noon Central time.
In video games where saving anytime you want to isn’t an option, finding a save point is one of the most relieving experiences you can ever have. It means that all your hard work, all the painstaking progress that you’ve made since the last time you saved, won’t be in vain. After all, there are few feelings as demoralizing in gaming as losing an entire session’s worth of progress all because you didn’t save. It’s enough to make you want to give up a game altogether. Save points then become those places of safety and assurance that you are always on the lookout for.
They say that art imitates life, and that is very much the case here. Just as we search for those save points in video games, we search for them as well in real life. Every one of us has certain “save points” that we depend on, people or things that we look to for comfort and assurance. We here in Infinite Life join with many others across the world in looking to Jesus Christ as the greatest of all “save points.” In Jesus, we find comfort and assurance that is unmatched by anything else in this world. Jesus says in Matthew 11:28-30 (that’s chapter 11, verses 28 through 30 of the book of Matthew, if you aren’t sure what those numbers mean)
28 “Come to me, all you who are struggling hard and carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest. 29 Put on my yoke, and learn from me. I’m gentle and humble. And you will find rest for yourselves. 30 My yoke is easy to bear, and my burden is light.”
Common English Bible
Jesus says this to reassure all those hearing him that what he offers is life-giving. It isn’t a burden designed to weigh you down and cause you pain. Instead, what God has offered to the world through Jesus is forgiveness of our mistakes and healing for our sorrows. Not only that, but he offers perfect assurance that not only are we completely forgiven, but that this life will not be the end of us as well. This is why Jesus also says in John 3:16
16 God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him won’t perish but will have eternal life.
Common English Bible
Through Jesus, God offers us comfort and strength for this life, but he also promises us hope for life beyond this. Through raising Jesus from the dead, God showed that He can do the same for everyone who has faith and follows his Son.
