But, because God is glorious, majestic, eternal and all powerful, physical life exists. Because God is the God of love, spiritual life exists and man has the opportunity to live in the presence of God s glory forever. The following words are part of John s description of heaven. Heaven is lit with the radiance of God s glory and God has given man the opportunity to live eternally within its glow. Because the opportunity of eternal life is extended to man by God through Christ, the sorrows of life are tolerable.
Eternal life gives purpose to physical life.
Because of eternal life, the aged child of God can view his aches and pains as a short discomfort which will be followed by eternal comfort. The brokenhearted will be wholehearted and will no longer shed tears. Parents and children will know pain no more. This promise of things to come brings the present into proper focus. When spiritual eyes are engaged, the physical world is transformed in the sight of the beholder.