You will carry into eternity the product of your investment in this life. Life is too short and the stakes too high to live mediocre lives.
Exposure to Scripture forms an essential ingredient in obtaining the “mind of Christ.”
Everyone invests his life in something by virtue of his living. No moment can be saved for another day. Time once spent can never be recaptured.
You can see why the first job of any religion is to define purpose. Why are you here? The whole of Scripture asserts that this life is the seedtime of eternity. Your only purpose for living this life is to prepare for an eternity with God.
Imagine living ten thousand years without sinning, making one mistake, and spending eternity in hell.
Something worse than this pain, however, is for God to allow you the fulfillment of your temporal hope only to arrive in eternity disappointed.
Evangelism deals with calling the lost to repentance and reconciliation with God, and edification deals with helping them grow to maturity in the Faith; nothing else constitutes the maturity.
Your purpose in this life is to prepare you for eternity, and how you invest each day appreciably impacts the quality of your eternity.
Does God’s inscrutability and unpredictability confuse you and cause you to doubt, or does it fill you with awe as you marvel at His ways?
If it is not hard enough to ditch a temporal perspective for a life of eternity, there is even a greater calling to consider. Our ideas, decisions and actions have tremendous spillover effects. God’s plan and purpose is perfect; but, we must take responsibility for the way we conduct ourselves with everyone He places in [...]
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