Death will often make us think on these things, the why, the what ifs and many times we question God.
Today I want to talk about life. I want to talk about how insignificant we actually are and how eternity is significant.
If you knew today was your last, would you tell someone about Jesus Christ's love?
We put so much emphasis on this life, the here the now, but there is something so much bigger and better awaiting those who believe.
Life is but a vapor and then gone..... but we have so much trouble with death.
I know right now if I lost someone I love, I would have trouble with it. I know it's because we love so deeply, we are so encompassed with the world and 'our own world' that nothing need shake it or life is bad. I would be like Elisha when he realized he was alone in this world without Elijah. (2Kings 2:12). I would be broken, and selfishly wanting "my" person back. All the while not thinking about how much bigger eternity is than my here and now, than this life that is like a mist or vapor then gone(James 4:14).
When you think on the shootings, the kids that are killed in the way of the shooter or the bomber or a shooter that targets kids or the people who were targeted with a car because he could not get a gun... you realize this world is tainted, people are hurting and full of evil, yet you choose to not look up, you choose to not look to a higher power for strength but instead you look for strength within yourself or whatever the narcissistic latest religion/or spirituality fad is. The world is only getting worse because people are getting further away from God, from his principles his morals, his truth and virtues.
You see years ago even the parents who were dragged to church and then maybe didn't go, taught their kids morals, respect and virtues, generations go by and this goes lacking.They didn't go to church and now their kids don't go to church or see a need for it and they are working 6-7 days a week because that is what their parents taught them was important and what society tells us is important, and no one is teaching the kids morals, not even the church because someone along the way decided 'church' wasn't important and they don't go. Thus, it becomes generational.
There is a great falling away from what this country was founded on, you say freedom of religion yes, but that freedom was to worship God the one and only how they wanted. Not spirituality, not self, not money, but God.
Here we are as a nation, trying our best to get away from the old way, the old things and we are pushing God out, when we need to desperately hold onto to Him and His word with all we have.
Eternity is the big picture here........... eternity.....
What are you doing for eternity? How are you preparing? How are you living? Who are you telling about eternity? Who are you telling about God, so that you, they, whomever, gets the chance to live eternal?
Because, in the end, eternity is what matters not this fleeting life that is way too short.
So.....
.. As I prepare to go to a funeral today of a student, I realize how fragile life is but also how small it is.... eternity is the big picture..
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