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There is more to life than just here and now. The other day I believe that I smiled for the first time because I have Heaven to look forward to. Being in ultimate completion w/ my creator. You take the joy you get from getting a few extra dollars a paycheck, your car fixed, a kiss, a great lunch or a new toy. Take the moments of happiness where your worries are gone and you desires are fulfilled...forever! That is heaven.
It's almost embarrassing to think about...to discuss because it seems childish. Literally beyond our dreams, it could be considered immature to ponder such things because part of maturity is learning to deal w/ not getting what you want. We have to suck it up when our desires and sometimes our needs are not met.
We should still deal w/ this matters appropriately but dealing w/ them should also include knowing they do not matter, will not make us really happy and in fact we need to set our standards even height, to perfection! This prefect life can never be obtained here on earth, we were made to live forever.
I love C.S. Lewis, his logic is so heartwarming that it can almost bring tears to your eyes having discovered some simple truth about life you've almost been ignoring until now. In, Reflections on the Psalms, Lewis writes:
'We are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. "How he's grown!" we exclaim, "How time flies!", as though the universal form of our experience were again and again a novelty. It is as strange as if a fish were repeatedly surprised at the wetness of water. And that would be strange indeed; unless of course the fish were destined, one day, to become a dry animal.
AWESOME! Our bodies and minds struggle w/ time passing. We weren't made for it and we don't like having to deal with it.
1 John 2:17
The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever
Most every choice i make has an effect on my eternity. This is a reality that I need not take for granted. I have nothing to fear in this world and that smile on my face that i get thinking of the wonders of heaven will be shown more often.
There is more to life than just here and now. The other day I believe that I smiled for the first time because I have Heaven to look forward to. Being in ultimate completion w/ my creator. You take the joy you get from getting a few extra dollars a paycheck, your car fixed, a kiss, a great lunch or a new toy. Take the moments of happiness where your worries are gone and you desires are fulfilled...forever! That is heaven.
It's almost embarrassing to think about...to discuss because it seems childish. Literally beyond our dreams, it could be considered immature to ponder such things because part of maturity is learning to deal w/ not getting what you want. We have to suck it up when our desires and sometimes our needs are not met.
We should still deal w/ this matters appropriately but dealing w/ them should also include knowing they do not matter, will not make us really happy and in fact we need to set our standards even height, to perfection! This prefect life can never be obtained here on earth, we were made to live forever.
I love C.S. Lewis, his logic is so heartwarming that it can almost bring tears to your eyes having discovered some simple truth about life you've almost been ignoring until now. In, Reflections on the Psalms, Lewis writes:
'We are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. "How he's grown!" we exclaim, "How time flies!", as though the universal form of our experience were again and again a novelty. It is as strange as if a fish were repeatedly surprised at the wetness of water. And that would be strange indeed; unless of course the fish were destined, one day, to become a dry animal.
AWESOME! Our bodies and minds struggle w/ time passing. We weren't made for it and we don't like having to deal with it.
1 John 2:17
The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever
Most every choice i make has an effect on my eternity. This is a reality that I need not take for granted. I have nothing to fear in this world and that smile on my face that i get thinking of the wonders of heaven will be shown more often.