Our Life seen through the lens of eternity !
Autor: Júlio César | Publicado: 2009-03-24T12:44:00-07:00

I've once listened to a song that said something like this: "If I find in myself desires nothing in this world could satisfy, I can only conclude that I was not made for here".While I was reflecting about this deep paradoxal verse (that sometimes seems to be easy to be reached or understood, but sometimes seems to be so distant andutopical), I remembered that the Bible says God has put the desire for the eternity into the man's heart. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)This eternity that was so close to Adan and Eve, but it was taken away from them, when their desire to be like God appeared.Sometimes I think in the ancient phrase "there is an empty space in our souls that only can be fulfiled by God", many people think it's only an impact phrase, something really metaphorical, an evangelical jargon.But I'm sure this phrase true, and as we had seen a few minutes ago, it's biblical correct ! (Ecclesiastes 3:11)If we think a little about the constant and endless human souls' desires (happiness, money, love, pleasure, self accomplishment, acknowledgement, friendship, success...), WE WILL DEFINITELY SEE THAT THEY COULD NEVER BE COMPLETELY FULFILED, Doesn't matter how rich you are, you may want something more, and if you are already happy, you may want money and success. Who could ever say that has achieve all his dreams and projects?and if there is such person, ask him how he would like living an extra 500 years life bonus...So this person would keep desiring more and more, never achiving full inner peace.Maybe that is why the Bible says:"What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. "(James 4:1-3)Are we so dumb and stubborn to not understand that we could never fulfil the desire for the eternity with cars, houses, and other material stuff, earthly dreams and empty projects ?This empty space in our souls is way to big to be fulfiled with temporary thrash !Avoiding it will only cause discouragement, fatigue, hopelessness and frustration...The sooner whe realize that " my soul thirsts for the Lord", the sooner we will give up fight like a man beating the air, trying to quench an eternal thirsty with the temporary water of human hope, dreams and desires.Jesus once said: "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him" (John 7:37-38)Biologically speaking, the human body perish and dies without water, Spiritually speaking, the problem is the same...Our souls need the streams of living water !Let the rivers of the Holy Spirit flow in your life.If we guide our lives by the lens of the eternity, how realized, full of purpose and joy it will be !But if we let the earthly vision guide us, and the pride, the greed, the carnal pleasures say what our priorities are, it will turn us into human flesh sinful-minded puppets, fulfiled with all the rot things of this world, really miserables !Do you wanna start putting your life in the eternal domain ?So, let's start: Imagine this: "On 1000 years, Will it matter how much money you got, how rich you were, and how famous you were ?"Ok, you think 1000 years is way too much time ? So just think that from the day you die, you will begin to see what was worthy and how temporary things have no value after death...That's because after dead you enter in the eternity domain, and you may be way too poor there, even if you were the richest man on earth. Do You want to know what the essence of seeing life through eternal lens is ?Death is the most undeniable truth in the world,and it can't be avoided for anyone (rich or poor), and it will automatically lead you to eternity.You better be prepared for that !Jesus said: "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" (John 11:25-26)May God bless you in Jesus' name !