Looking at life through the eyes of eternity

If you look at life through the eyes of eternity it seems to make a lot more sense. If you look at life any other way it doesn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense.  There has to be more to it than we live and die and that’s all there is.  Some might believe in eternity apart from God, like reincarnation, or that our souls just float around in some sort of state of limbo.

I hope neither of those are true.  If you believe in eternity in the light of the God who created us then this life is all in preparation for the next.  If you believe in Jesus and decide to let Him into your heart and give Him control of your life, and if God’s word is true, then you are assured a place in heaven.  His word says that He goes to prepare a place for us and that where He is, there we will be also. 

Sometimes it sounds like a fairy tale but I’m sure a thousand or even several hundred years ago if you told someone about airplanes, cars and computers they would say it was a fairy tale too.

God is so much more huge than any words could ever begin to describe.  After one second in eternity I think that anything we went through here, no matter how atrocious, will seem like nothing in comparison to the all encompassing love, peace and lightness that we will feel.

I don’t think that any of us realize just how many burdens we carry around with us. But when we reach eternity and they are lifted, I believe it is going to be such a feeling of freedom that we will be astounded. 

Anyway, knowing what is waiting for me gives me strength to keep going when I’m bombarded by one thing after another.  Sometimes I feel like I’m going to crumble so I don’t know what I would do if I had to face starvation or torture, but I have faced some things I never thought I would have to and God did give me strength while I was in it. I was “pressed but not crushed, persecuted but not abandoned” like it says in 2 Corinthians 4: verses 8 and 9       

 I don’t know why life is so hard sometimes, but I guess it’s all a matter of perspective. The Bible also says “our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, for the things that are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4: 17 and 18 (New King James)

 

Sometimes we make things hard on ourselves and sometimes they are just hard all on their own, but life can also be awful darn good and keeping a good sense of humor, and not allowing anger or bitterness to control you helps too. Thank God there’s more to life than life on this planet.   

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