I love big picture reminders. life can become a lot of myopic naval gazing. The chapter starts off with a great big picture moment…
“According to the biblical picture, the function of human history is to bring forth an immense community of people from every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people, who will be a kingdom of priests under God. They will reign with him in the eternal future of the cosmos forever and ever.” Children of Light Chapter 52
It won’t be about the things we do or don’t do. Everything will be right in our hearts and everything we do will reflect that as well.
In our thoughts we will spend all of our thought energy on the greatness of God and the adoration of Him and every created thing will be a gift we can enjoy. There’s no dwelling on evil, simply on whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, excellent or praiseworthy!! What a great infinite number of days that will be.
We will love our own life, the lives of others and mostly the life that God is giving us. thankfulness and gratitude will flow out from us like a never-ending stream. joy and peace will be a never-ending part of our lives as we won’t even consider engaging in our thoughts of rejection, failure and hopelessness.
As we look ahead to what is in store for us, maybe it can clue us in to the things that would be more important for our days here. And while the perfect place that awaits us is always a place to look forward to, maybe some thoughts about that would alter some of our moments here as our bodies groan for what lies ahead.
Truth, Grace, and Time 