Eternity

Picture this . . .  in the example below, the dot in the middle represents your entire life span on earth. The lines on both side of the dot represent all of eternity - except in reality this line would disappear off your computer screen, travel to the edge of our known universe and still not come anywhere close to representing the span of eternity. 

It is my sincere belief that we are eternal creatures, spirits, designed to live in our earthly bodies for sixty, seventy, maybe at best a hundred years, but then, and don't miss this part, we will live out the rest of our eternal lives in one of two destinations.

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So let me ask you a simple question . . . 

Does it make sense to devote all of your time, passions, energies, relationships, resources, and most importantly, your devotion and worship, to things that only exist within the span of a dot? Or is it perhaps a wiser decision to invest in the world to come, in the eternal, making a priority the things that will outlast the temporal? 

"Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?" (Matthew 16:24-26)

Thoughts?