"The end is only the beginning"
The scariest thought to me growing up was where am I going after I die. I was a 7 year old kid sitting on a hill at 2 in the morning crying my eyes out, because of fear of whats after life. Whats after this. I am going to grow old and i am going to sleep one day and never wake up its just going to be darkness and that's it. Will this thought ever go away can't i live life and then when i die it wont be over.
How do I enjoy life when all I have to look forward to is death. living life for my first 11 years this way was not fun. It was full of worrying and that lead to doing things i regret. And you start thinking like oh I am going to die anyway so this one thing wont hurt and this drink wont kill me. That is how I thought.
Until one day at this youth group I went to the pastor said that I can have eternal life after death and i thought he was crazy because how do you live after you die. I mean your dead its not like you are going to get up and start walking right. He told me know your body will stay dead and rot but your soul will rise and be with God.
What is this guy talking about?
He was talking about a life beyond everything. I felt love. I felt hope. In that moment I felt LIFE. PURPOSE. DESTINY. I was finally gripping on what we were here for and what we are suppose to do. Life isn't about doing all what we want. getting a house. a car. and then settle. We are on this earth to point people to the light not to walk away from it. Be that light because that is why we are here.
Do not worry what is going to happen after death for we will be with God and we will have eternal life in him. Live this life for him and not for ourselves.
So when your gasping for your last breath of air. Do not worry for you will be in heaven in that moment. It is never over with God.
No more wondering for here is the answer
Matthew 25:46 (New International Version)
46"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
which side do you want to have
eternal punishment or eternal life you decide?
Its your life you choose for God is not going to choose for you.
love
Gods follower
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Thanks Mikey! I would feel the same way when I was younger. I still believed in eternal life, but it was eternity seeing God like I am see Him now: 'through a mirror darkly' (1 Cor 13:12). I would break down and weep because I had this concept of forever but there was no purpose. Since then, I have grasped the reality that, although we have become united with God when we first believed, our fulfilled unity with the Triune God is when we die.
ReplyDeleteI hear a good book to read on the subject is "Surprised by Hope" by N.T. Wright.
mikey that was really awesome. i had the exact same revelation when i was on a vacation in tahoe. it scared me so bad. and i came to the same relization. this was really good.
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