Can you see it? It's all around you, woven into the very core of your existence. It lives and moves about you, influencing your life day in and day out. It is as real as the air you breathe yet cannot see... and as subtle as the breeze that moves across your skin.
What is it you ask?
It is what existed long before we came to be, and will continue long after we are no more.... It is what was, and is, and always will be. It is more real than the substance of what exists and surrounds you, but for most of us it never even crosses our mind.
Can you guess what it is?
It is eternity... It is the realm of existence that God and Angels move in... And it is also the realm of existence that we move in, even though we can't see it yet. But one day we will. One day all that you see and know, all that exists around you will be know more.
(2 Peter 3:12) On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames.
And the only thing that will remain is the essence of who you are before God and the only thing you will have with you is what you have built outside the confines of time! What will remain is what you have intentionally built to exist into eternity.
(1 Corinthians 3:11-13) For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ. Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a person’s work has any value.
(Matthew 6:20) Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.
If you could see and experience eternity right now, would it change the way you live? If Angels and Demons battled for your soul every day right before your very eyes, would it change the way you view your priorities?
If you saw for yourself the way Angels continually worshipped and revered a Holy God, would it change the place you give Him in your life?
Can I let you in on a little secret?
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't taking place around you every day.
And just because you decide not to recognize the existence of what you cannot see doesn't mean it isn't real.
Whether it happens ‘Here’... or after ‘Here’ is no more, one day eternity will become very real for all of us.
That means that for some of us as Christians we need to re-evaluate our priorities. We need to make sure that what we deem as important enough to invest our lives in is still important in the light of eternity. To make sure the life we are building now is based on how we will live there, not how we live here.
And for those of us who have not yet met the God of eternity... and do not have a relationship with the Son He sent to redeem you, now is the time to ask yourself... Where are you going to spend eternity? The only time you have to answer this question is while you are still here, now. When your time here has ended the time for answers is over.
No one knows for sure when He is coming... or when our number is up. Either way when one or the other happens you are going to step into eternity to stand before your loving Father and Creator or before your Judge and Executioner. There is no in between, and the choice is yours to make... Here and now....
(2 Corinthians 6:2) For God says’ “At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you.” Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation.
I truly believe that if we could see eternity play out before our eyes every day ALL of us would live radically different lives. But just because we can’t see it doesn’t mean we can’t train our selves to live as though we do.
Decide today to live for what will be, not for what is… when we have lived a million years in eternity I doubt many of us will even remember the days we live in today… any more than we as adults today, spend time reflecting on how our lives were just a few short years ago in High School…
You think about it!
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