Eternity is Calling You

Do you have a true hope? A true hope looks beyond this world and places hope in something greater than what this world has to offer. The things of this world are only temporary. The life we live here is but a vapor, it's here then it's gone! We have a Creator and He has placed within each one of us a desire to hunger for something that is solid, something that can be depended upon, something permanent. Our searching for completeness in this world will never be fulfilled because this world offers only temporary gratification and fleeting fulfillment.

So many people are longing for happiness, peace and contentment and so they run from one temporary high to another to try and fulfill that longing. They might feel good for the moment, but then the emptiness hits them like a ton of bricks and once again they run to try and find fulfillment for themselves, and the viscious cycle continues but to no avail. Stresses of life can breed discontentment, how will we respond to it, or for some how will we react to it?. The Word of God says that this world is not our home and we are as strangers/pilgrims that are just passing through. To have total contentment "in this world" is impossible, and this our soul knows very well. Our soul searches to find our promise land, that place where we can call home and finally have that ultimate rest.

There is a knowing in each one of us that there is something more, something that goes beyond this world. Because of this knowing there births a longing to attain the "more" which our soul knows. This is Eternity calling! In the book of Ecclesiastes 3:11 King Solomen said this, "God has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a devinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Those who try to convince themselves that this world is all there is, will only become more frustrated and discontented because they are trying to live a life that suggests finite living and they close their minds to the truth that eternity is calling them. There is an eternal life that awaits each one of us.

Living in denial of the Truth that there is more and that this world is not our final destination will only cause ongoing turmoil in one's life. Whether some want to acknowledge it or not, we have a Creator, and He designed us to know fulfillment, and that fulfillment is in Him and Him alone. All our hopes, joy, peace and contentment lies in our Creator. Jesus is the only Way, the Truth and the Life, and we will not have a full filling life outside of Him, or an everlasting one. We have Everlasting Life in Him and only Him. We will never know true joy or peace outside of Christ Jesus both here and now and for all eternity. Jesus said, "I have come that you may have life and have it more abundantly." Giving us a hope and a future with Him.

If you are reading this, then you have yet to see your Salvation/Jesus. Even though by faith we have made Jesus our Lord and Saviour, we still long to see Him and be with Him. JESUS, is our all sufficiency, our total fulfillment (Jesus the Hope of Glory). In the meantime we can find ourselves trying to hold onto things that this world has to offer because our souls are still longing for completeness. Eternity pulls at our hearts, hold on to the eternal things. Our souls long for the eternal things, but our flesh keeps us hindered and grasping for completeness in  temporary things.

I believe I understand the words of Paul now when he proclaimed:
"O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin" (Rom. 7:24-25).We all groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to know the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it (Rom. 8:23b-25).

Eternity is calling you. You are destined for an eternal life. Do you know where you will spend eternity? Embrace eternal life in Christ Jesus today and rest in the hope that you will someday have a place where you can know true fulfillment and call home.