Daily Thought for Thursday, August 11th

August 11, 2011

Eternity

Today’s Thought:

“As eternity is reckoned, there is a lifetime in a second.”  – Piet Hein

Today’s Quotes:

“What, to eternity, is a thousand years?  Not so much as the blinking of an eye to the turning of the slowest of spheres.” – Dante

Today’s Question

“The sand of the sea, the drops of rain and the days of eternity – who can count them?” – from The Apocrypha

Today’s Bible Verses:                2 Corinthians 4:18, 1 Timothy 1:17 & John 17:1-3

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Today’s Spiritual Thought:

“The soul awakes  between two dim eternities – the eternal past, the eternal future.”– Harriet Beecher Stowe (from ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’)

Eternity is sometimes a complex concept that we have trouble wrapping our mind around.  We are conditioned to think in increments of time as in a minute, an hour or a day; but eternity has no beginning and no end; it goes on forever and ever.

Scripture says of the Lord:  “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” – The Bible (Revelation 1:8)

God is eternal.  He had no beginning and He will have no end.  Now that is amazing.

We, unlike God have a beginning, and while our physical bodies may have an end; our souls do not.  God has imparted to His creation eternal souls that will live forever.

The question then is this, where will your eternal soul spend the rest of infinity and beyond?

Will it be Heaven or will it be Hell?

While eternity lasts forever, there are only two options for destinations in which to spend this time in continuum.  To avoid Hell requires accepting Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior and allowing His blood to wash away your sins.

He has already given you eternal existence, but He allows you the freedom to choose where you will spend it?

Eternity is a long, long time, so choose wisely.

 

Today’s Prayer:

Father, thank you the hope I have in you of everlasting, eternal life in the bliss and glory of your presence.