Eternity Matters

"I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow,
A wave tossed in the ocean,
A vapor in the wind.
Still you hear me when I'm calling,
Lord, you catch me when I'm falling,
And you've told me who I am.
I am yours.
I am yours." - Casting Crowns 


We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on
our lives and our days long and often before the face of God
and on the edge of eternity.  For we are made for eternity as
certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible
moral beings we must deal with both.

A.W. Tozer

John 11:25-26 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

This has come to me more and more lately... The fact that I am going to die. I am going to die, and when I do what will people remember of me? That I was lazy, never risked anything, did only the expected, that Christ wasn't important? What will it be when that time comes? Did I go to those in need and share Christ with them?

Preach the GOSPEL to YOURSELF, DAILY! Just recently am I getting what that really means. When I do NOT do that, when I am NOT in the GOSPEL daily... I suffer. I do things I do not want to do, my day goes poorly, and my mind is not focused on that day, and what HE has for me at that moment.

Paul talks about running the race, but doing so that it will not have been in vain(Phil. 2). How am I running, half heartedly, or with a passion that no one can question!?

I want to be the prayer warrior that I see Paul is in his letters. Do you notice in every letter he has EVERYONE in his prayers!? He thanks God for all of them, why... Because they are fellow heirs in Christ! He is the drive, He creates the bond, HE changes Everything!!!

Eternity... Where am I headed? Heaven! Where is my neighbor headed? Or my friends?
I often don't think of it, it isn't the first thing that comes to mind... but shouldn't it be?
Where I go matters... Where they go matters just as much. I need to think about it, I need to preach the gospel to myself daily. Christ deserves my all! And because Christ loves everyone, I need to be His servant, as He made the biggest sacrifice for me!

Matthew 28 - Go and(on your way) make disciples!!!