What do you mean {forever}?

Whats up everyone,


I hope you learn to trust in God as we talked about in our last devotional. I am still learning. You have to unlearn some things. We are so trained to be in control. We want things to be our way or it's the highway! In order to trust God you have to give up control of your life and that is very hard for people to do. We like to be in control because it makes us feel powerful and it makes us feel safe. Give it up!!! The sooner you realize that you shouldn't control your life the sooner you can allow Jesus to help you.

Anyway, I want to talk about something else for this month. And I want to give you an illustration first so that you can see what I am talking about. Imagine we took an airplane trip to the shores of Africa. We got there and I told you that I would give you anything you wanted if you finished an assignment that I gave you. So, of course you say yes. My assignment would be for you to get all the sand from all the beaches of Africa back to the United States. Could you do it? Not only would you have to get all the sand from all the beaches in Africa back to the US but you would have to do it grain by grain. WOW!!! Would you take me up on it?!! Probably not, right? Why? Would you finish? I would probably be safe to say that I wouldn't have to give you anything because you wouldn't be able to complete the assignment. How long would it take you? It would more than likely take you...FOREVER!!!


Do you know that's how long you will live after you die in this earth and pass on to eternity? Eternity is FOREVER!!! Jesus promised us eternity with Him if we lived for Him on earth. I don't want to miss out on that and I hope you don't either. Give your life to Him here and you will be assured to spend the rest of your life in His company and not away from it. And it will not be boring either. Some of you think that eternity or heaven is going to be some boring place way off in the distance. Man, are you wrong! The bible says that heaven will come on earth and all things will be new again. They will be how God meant them to be. No tears, fear, pain, sickness, disease, or death. It will be exactly how God intended it from the beginning.


Don't set your desires completely on things that will pass away. People are killing themselves because they put all their hope on things that don't last forever such as their job, money, houses, cars, and clothes. I'm not saying you can't have those things but don't place all your hope and dreams on those things. Place them first on Jesus, eternity and heaven, which last forever. Much love.


Mick