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been particularly difficult to live with, but because we approach life hoping that it will deliver to us things that we can only experience in eternity. Our disappointment reveals more about our own eternity amnesia than it does about the world around us. 7. Lacking motivation and hope. All of these consequences weaken our motivation and our hope. The fact that this world is not an endless cycle of dashed hopes and fading dreams but by God’s plan is marching toward a moment when all that is broken will be restored can fill you with a reason to get up in the morning and press on. Yes, life is hard and you will face things you never imagined you would face, but this world is not all there is. You are not living in the final chapter of the story. What is broken will be fixed, what has been bent will be straightened, and what has decayed will be restored. Eternity really does give you a reason to continue, even when nothing right now seems as if it is working. Eternity challenges my feelings of futility by reminding me that what I am experiencing right now is not permanent. 8. Living as if life doesn’t have consequences . Eternity forces me to face the fact that life does have consequences. We can believe whatever we want to believe and live however we want to live, but we will face the consequences of poor choices. There is life after death, and I could argue that eternity is the ultimate consequence. A day of reck- oning is coming that no human being will escape, and realizing that reality infuses today with a moral serious- ness that you will find no other way. Welcome to Your Schizophrenia We are forever people who have quit believing in forever. We live in the middle of a massive contradiction. No, I’m not talking about
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