You’re gonna live through this
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by John Fischer We ended last week thinking about eternity, and we begin this week with the same. The value of eternity is the perspective it gives to life — not as an escape from reality, but as a means of deepening it. One aspect of that perspective was captured in a humorous quote sent by one of our readers. The reader didn’t cite the source except that it was a comedian. “One of these days we’re going to get to heaven, and we’re going to look back over our lives and say: ‘You know, I sure could have enjoyed that a whole lot more had I’d known I WAS GOING TO LIVE THROUGH IT!’”
Think about that. If your faith is in Jesus Christ, you’re going to get through whatever you are going through right now. You will look back on this and it will seem like nothing. I know it may seem like there is no end in sight right now, but that’s only because you can only see a few feet ahead.
Have you ever noticed how waiting for something seems to take forever, and then when you finally realize what you were waiting for, whether it’s a mate, or a baby, or a degree, it seems like all that time you waited vanishes? You made it! You have it now! It almost makes all that waiting irrelevant. Heaven will be like that, I think. From this side of heaven, life moves slowly; from the other side, it is over in a flash. So even though we can’t change our vantage point, we can know that it will be changing, and for the better, and because of the realities of faith, that is not just wishful thinking. It is the truth.
So think about that now. You are going to live through this. And given that fact, maybe you’ll be able to enjoy it more, or endure it more easily, because you know that. Would it change what you are going through right now if you knew you were going to live through it? Well, think about that, because you will!
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understudy Says:
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