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Chaplain’s Corner: Living With Eternity in Mind
done. To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, He will give eternal life. But for those who are self- seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger" (Romans 2:6-8). We must never forget that every one of us, while we live, is in a state of probation. We are constantly sowing seeds that will spring up and bear fruit, every day and every hour in our lives. There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words, and actions, of which we pay too little attention. "Everyone will have to give account on the Day of Judgment for every empty word they have spoken" (Matthew 12:36). Our thoughts are all numbered; our actions are weighed. No wonder that Paul says, " Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life" (Galatians 6:8). In a word, what we sow in life we will reap after death and reap throughout all eternity.
Our future state in the unseen world of eternity depends entirely on what we are in the present. The life that we live on the earth is short and soon gone. "We finish our years with a moan" (Psalm 90:9). "What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14). The life that is before us when we leave this world is an endless eternity, a sea without a bottom, and an ocean without a shore. "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day" (2 Peter 3:8). In that world, there will be no more time. But short as our life is here, and endless as it will be in eternity, the life we now live will have a tremendous impact on eternity. Our lot after death depends, humanly speaking, on what we are while we are alive. It is written, God "will repay each person according to what they have
"Life is the time to serve the Lord, The time to insure the great reward."
from Isaac Watts, “Life Is the Time to Serve the Lord.” The Bible clearly teaches that what we are when we die, whether converted or unconverted, whether believers or unbelievers, whether godly or ungodly, so we will be when we rise again at the sound of the last trumpet. There is no
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