"I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him."
Ecclesiastes 3:14
The whole concept of eternity is difficult for us to grasp, being in a limited state ourselves, at least currently, but God does a lot of work with us to help us become long-term thinkers. The other idea here is permanancy, which is also hard for us, since things fall apart around us all the time. With God though, the ideas of eternal and permanent are alive and well... and they matter to us immensely, because that is where we are headed. Part of us in impermanent so that we can have this probationary period of life and figure ourselves out a little. After this though, with God's help, we will be resurrected into eternal, immortal bodies as well, and be permanent fixtures of the eternal realm. :)
Today, let's ease ourselves out of some of the short-term thinking that gets us into so much trouble, and lets think about God and his works which last forever... including us. This life is not the end, and shouldn't be the end that we consider in our decision-making. Let's think about who we are becoming as our eternal selves, and make sure that is a place we want to go, and a person we want to become, because we're building something permanent here... it is who we are going to be for eternity. Let's work on getting it right, and cleaning up, through God's grace, any mistakes that we have made.
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