Think Eternally 

   “But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.” (2 Peter: 3:8) 

   As creatures ruled by time we have a hard time considering eternity.  In fact, it is something that I don’t believe can ever understood in this lifetime.  However, eternity should always be on our mind.

   Our day to day life is filled with the business of getting on with our daily life.  Just taking care of the many things we find necessary in daily life seem to take up the whole day.  For many year we work a full time job to supply the money we need.  Then we must do all the other “to-dos” that dominate our life.  By the time the day is done, we are exhausted and just want to fall into bed and rest.  We find it hard to find time to even consider eternity, nevertheless, prepare ourselves for it.

   But our days are nothing when we consider eternity.  When we begin to think eternally we reject the limits of time.  We come to realize that time is a construct of man, not God.  We count the days by the number of times the sun rises while God does not count time at all.  For Him, and for us in the next life, time does not exist; all is now.

   Once we begin to grasp how short human life is, we can begin to consider eternity.  Once we begin to consider eternity the trials and woes of this world fade and the urgency of living to ensure eternal life with the Lord occupy more and more of our day.

   We are eternal and even though we can’t fully understand what that means, our eternal life depends on the amount of earthly “time” we devote to ensuring we are prepared for eternity.