Are You living with a perspective of Now or Eternity?
1 Kings 7:1 But Solomon took thirteen years to build his own house; so he finished all his house.
Couple of months back I was flying to Atlanta and I was looking down the window of the airplane and saw how small the houses and cars looked. As I was seeing this I was reminded of the verse from the bible that when the angels blow the trumpet and all who know Jesus would be lifted up to meet him in the clouds. My airplane was in the clouds and I was trying to imagine myself for that moment. I started wondering what will happen to all my property. My three bedroom house, my Minivan, my car, the leather couches, my nice suites, the sumptuous ice-cream sitting in my freezer and all the wonderful and awesome things that makes our life an awesome thing to work and live for.
We work day and night to make sure that our lives and our children’s lives are made comfortable. We work hard, so that our kids go to the best schools, they wear the best clothes. We work hard, so that we can have a good reputation in the society. We work hard on this earth to achieve something, to satisfy our ambitions and many times to earn a lot of money. We work hard so that we have enough to take care of our retirement. So what will I do when the trumpet is sounded? Will I lose all that I have worked for in my life?
The $1 million houses and the $50,000 SUV’s and cars were looking like very tiny toys from the aircraft. And they all looked so insignificant to the vastness of the universe. I realized that when I am with Jesus in the clouds, just like I was in this aircraft all these things will seem so insignificant in my life since the beauty of the King of Kings will overshadow all the earthly things that I worked for in my life. I will not have any attachment to these things nor will I feel like running after them.
In 1 Kings 7:1, we see a vivid example of King Solomon who seems to have spent 13 years of his life building his palace, while if you go back one chapter in 1 Kings 6:38, you will see that it took him only 7 years to build the temple of the Lord. King Solomon worked so hard for his palace which was later destroyed and looted. However, the temple of the Lord which he spent only 7 years is prophesied in the Bible to be re-built in Jerusalem before Jesus comes. Are we too not like Solomon? We too spend most of our life working for our pleasures which is fleeting, while we fail to work for things that stay for eternity. Our life on earth is short 80, 100 or 120 years. However, our life with the Lord is for eternity.
Today are you working so hard that you have lost your eternal perspective? Are you doing things that will reap you short term benefits only? However, if you desire to reap a long term benefit, then you may want to start thinking with an eternal perspective. So today, instead of running the rat race of our busy life, can you take out the time to touch somebody’s life that may need your help or love or comfort or your presence? Maybe you can take a small vacation and spend some time with your spouse or children and help them remember it for eternity. Maybe you need to forgive somebody today for the injustice they did towards you, which will release you from the bondage of un-forgiveness. The list is endless for the things that we can do today which can have an eternal impact, in our and other people’s life. I hope and pray that this devotion will help you revist your busy schedules, so that you will take this opportunity to attend to an eternal impacting event in your life.
Stanley Samuel,
Associate
India International Church
Couple of months back I was flying to Atlanta and I was looking down the window of the airplane and saw how small the houses and cars looked. As I was seeing this I was reminded of the verse from the bible that when the angels blow the trumpet and all who know Jesus would be lifted up to meet him in the clouds. My airplane was in the clouds and I was trying to imagine myself for that moment. I started wondering what will happen to all my property. My three bedroom house, my Minivan, my car, the leather couches, my nice suites, the sumptuous ice-cream sitting in my freezer and all the wonderful and awesome things that makes our life an awesome thing to work and live for.
We work day and night to make sure that our lives and our children’s lives are made comfortable. We work hard, so that our kids go to the best schools, they wear the best clothes. We work hard, so that we can have a good reputation in the society. We work hard on this earth to achieve something, to satisfy our ambitions and many times to earn a lot of money. We work hard so that we have enough to take care of our retirement. So what will I do when the trumpet is sounded? Will I lose all that I have worked for in my life?
The $1 million houses and the $50,000 SUV’s and cars were looking like very tiny toys from the aircraft. And they all looked so insignificant to the vastness of the universe. I realized that when I am with Jesus in the clouds, just like I was in this aircraft all these things will seem so insignificant in my life since the beauty of the King of Kings will overshadow all the earthly things that I worked for in my life. I will not have any attachment to these things nor will I feel like running after them.
In 1 Kings 7:1, we see a vivid example of King Solomon who seems to have spent 13 years of his life building his palace, while if you go back one chapter in 1 Kings 6:38, you will see that it took him only 7 years to build the temple of the Lord. King Solomon worked so hard for his palace which was later destroyed and looted. However, the temple of the Lord which he spent only 7 years is prophesied in the Bible to be re-built in Jerusalem before Jesus comes. Are we too not like Solomon? We too spend most of our life working for our pleasures which is fleeting, while we fail to work for things that stay for eternity. Our life on earth is short 80, 100 or 120 years. However, our life with the Lord is for eternity.
Today are you working so hard that you have lost your eternal perspective? Are you doing things that will reap you short term benefits only? However, if you desire to reap a long term benefit, then you may want to start thinking with an eternal perspective. So today, instead of running the rat race of our busy life, can you take out the time to touch somebody’s life that may need your help or love or comfort or your presence? Maybe you can take a small vacation and spend some time with your spouse or children and help them remember it for eternity. Maybe you need to forgive somebody today for the injustice they did towards you, which will release you from the bondage of un-forgiveness. The list is endless for the things that we can do today which can have an eternal impact, in our and other people’s life. I hope and pray that this devotion will help you revist your busy schedules, so that you will take this opportunity to attend to an eternal impacting event in your life.
Stanley Samuel,
Associate
India International Church
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