Monthly Archives: May 2007

An Eternal Destiny

Having taken some time to get the idea across that our everyday actions have the potential for eternal consequence, and having given some time for it all to sink in, let’s move on to the second section of Living in Light of Eternity: our present lives are a training ground for our eternal lives.

I have to admit that for a long time I never would have considered this point.  It was first present to me in a book study in my first church.  The pastor rallied us together for a seemingly simple discussion regarding a book that I hadn’t heard of before, but has shaped for me a very different understanding of life in the now.

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Eternity – 4

I’m not sure I’ve answered the point regarding everything we do has eternal consequences?  I may have, but I think I’ll take the time for one more shot at it.  Until we start to believe this is true, we cannot truly buy into the points that follow.  I’m going to dig deep here, but it will pan out in the end.

In Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus foretells a story of His return, and how He will separate those that ministered unto Him on the earth and those that did not.  Now, I’m talking about full-time, pastoral ministers.  Jesus spoke of those who met His needs – hunger, thirst, clothing; meeting needs, physical as well as spiritual, is ministering.  But He isn’t referring to those who saw Him in His mortal body while He walked the earth.  He means the people we pass on the path of life every day; to minister to them is to reach a hand to Him.

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Eternity 3 – Spiritually Near-Sighted

I think one of the hardest points for us to lay hold of is that every act of every day has eternal consequence. We look at some of the rote, mundane, and seemingly trivial elements of our daily routines and consider them the warm up before we can step up to the pitcher’s mound and throw the curve balls, sliders and fastballs for the real game. Even then we consider most of the “important” parts of our days to be too regulare too earthly to have spiritual significance.

You could this is a sort of spiritual near-sightedness; or maybe more accurately, near-blindness. We can only see the immidate results of our actions, and therefore have little trouble with living in the present.  However, we do so at the expense of not only a fast-approaching future, but also that of our eternal future.

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