For eternity

Life on Earth is a Prologue. It is a whisper of eternity. When our life on earth ends, it is not THE END. It is the BEGINNING. The life we live prepares us for eternity. How differently we would live our lives if we thought of it as training or preparation for a different life in another place.

Life is a proving ground where we learn our own strength. It’s where we learn to be what we were originally created to be. But instead of being able to live as we were created to live, we must spend our lives re-learning what was erased by the Fall. We must re-learn how to love, how to hope, how to have joy. And all this must be done in the confines of a fleshly body that is decaying and prone to limp and stray.

It’s all part of Restoration. God is about the Restoration and has asked a frail, ragged army of skeletons to join Him in the work. And as we join in, we are slowly and painfully transformed from skeleton to sculpture and from sculpture to saint. This transformation is a mystery that is not beyond God. It’s all part of His Restoration process. And when the Restoration is complete, there will be no more tears, all things will be made new, and we will be with Him for eternity.