With our eyes on the eternity!
Whatever we do in this life will in one way or another echo into eternity. Life here In earth is short compared with the eternity. Let us live for the things which have eternal value!
Have whatever engage our thoughts, our focus and our time eternal value? Colossians 3:2 exhort us: “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth”.
When you and I “set our minds on things above”, when we set our eyes on the eternity, our thoughts change, what we do with our time and money change, our decisions change and our focus change. Everything in our lives change when we decide to give our everything for the “things above”. That which has been important to us before fades in comparison with the things which have eternal value.
When I was twenty years old I preached the gospel for the very first time. I remember it as it was yesterday. We preached in a school and six fifteen year old girls responded to the altar call. These girls, including their families and relatives, were Hindus and had been worshipping idols for generations, but that night they confessed Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and their eternity was changed forever. The same night when I had gone to bed I couldn’t sleep anything. The happening at the school a few hours earlier was replayed inside of me again and again. Even that I was just a young, uneducated girl who knew very little English and who hadn’t been to Bible school, could God use me to do something that will echo into eternity. That night’s experience knocked out everything else I had experienced before and I knew that I was marked for life. There was nothing else I could do with my life. I had to do what I could do to change people’s eternity.
All people will one day face eternity. The question is what kind of eternity will they face? The Bible is very clear. It is with a great sincerity that John writes in Revelation 20:15 that to be saved and go to heaven we all must have our names written in the book of life. There is only one way to get your name written in the book of life and that is to believe in and call upon the name of Jesus! You and I can change people’s eternity and fill the book of life with new names, by giving our everything that the gospel will reach all people!
Let us do everything we can to save people for eternity. Let us not be consumed by things in our every day life but live with our eyes on the eternity.