On Sunday, as I listened to God's Word being honored, taught and spoken from, I was reminded by His Spirit of the hope I have in Him alone (Hebrews 6:19). As my brother shared his heart with the Body, there was a moment when the almost-silent, barely distinguishable Message slightly raised in volume and seemed to say to my soul: Eternity.
Words that I hadn't been able to grasp for days... a theme rising.
Eternity, Stephanie.
You see, I am a very temporary-minded girl. Are you? Today's dishes and laundry. Today's plans and excursions. Today's food and today's clothes. Today's ideas and to-dos. Today's worries and excitements. When tomorrow is thought about, it is still very earth bound and temporary in nature. Tomorrow's dishes and laundry. Tomorrows meals. Plans. Ideas. and To-dos. Tomorrow's worries and fears and excitements.
He seems to be breathing something within me to remind my heart of tomorrow's tomorrow, somewhere beyond the temporary and earth bound thoughts... He whispers an invitation to my heart to raise it's eyes and seek the light of a place with awe-filled hope and brimming contentment. A place of beauty and rest. A place of no tears, no pain and no worries. No sin.
A place beyond me, beyond my ideas, my dreams or my excitements. ...Eternity.
Look up and look out, Stephanie. Gaze into eternity. It begins today and looks forward to tomorrow---and tomorrow's tomorrow.
Can you catch a glimpse of it's beginning today? Can you just see it there in the distance, just around the corner... not far now, my friends. Not far now.
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." ~C.S.Lewis