Made for Eternity

 

March 18, 2024

Monday

We were made for eternity. That knowledge is impossible to grasp. Each of the events in our lives have and end date. We started with birth. We grew until we went to school. We went to school until we finished. We lived in our parents’ homes until we were on our own.  We get jobs. We may get married until death do us part.  We may have children. They follow the same pattern. We retire. We die. We are all resurrected. We spend eternity according to our relationship with God. That never ends.

These thoughts might be unsettling if we could grasp them. We are created for now and forever. We are not expected to stay exactly the same as we are now. We are expected to prepare for forever. That will seem like a long way off until it isn’t.

So, how do we use today to prepare for forever? We take one step closer to the One who holds forever in His hands. This is when we can say that we love our God more each day. Love is expressed in obedience and what we can do today, we couldn’t do yesterday. We do not live on our past accomplishments. We do not retire from our obedience. We do not say that we have already done everything and don’t need to do anything when we still have the ability to do what He continues to call us to do. We have no more right to say that we can’t than Moses did when God called him to rescue His people. We have no more right to run away that Jonah did when he was to preach to Ninevah.

But we do not do this simply because it is an obligation or because we have been coerced to do so. We serve because we love Him. We obey the Spirit when He prompts us to act. We do this out of love. Love has no bounds when it is allowed to grow. Our love for God will grow throughout eternity.

This is what our eternity will be. Yet, today we take one step.

1 John 5:1–2 (NASB 2020) ¹ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves the child born of Him. ² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and follow His commandments.