Posted by Sheshisown on April 14, 2008 at 17:26:27:
Soap bubbles, soap bubbles, it’s all just soap bubbles! Education, knowledge, pleasures, power or honor, marriage, singleness, children, passion, boredom, none of these in themselves bring contentment. Real contentment is only found in One most wonderful Person—Christ. There is indeed a time . . . to plant—to reap, to weep—to laugh, a time to cast away stones—a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to love and to hate, all to what profit I ask?
Not just to experience the seasons of life~ Thou these are lovely in their way but rather in any heart journey seeking contentment, we find love is followed by hate~ building up eventually disperses. The problem of this life is that it is so *daily*. It is predictable—which stretches out the heart and we ask; is that all there is? There must be more than what we experience, more than this mundane.
Yes, God makes everything beautiful. God makes all things beautiful~ in His time, if we get on His schedule, into His perfect will. God set eternity in our hearts~ instinctively humanity knows eternity is all beauty, love, joy, and contentment and it lasts in a lovely constant in the innermost part—and it is oh so fulfilling! LIFE is so much more than a cycle of marrying and giving in marriage, of working and striving and building up, to see it all disperse some day. See these things are of the here and now alone, and LIFE is so much more! Life is a risen thing outside of this time continuum, a breath in the beat of God’s heart!
I am a flower quickly fading, a wave upon the sea, nothing I am but Love will last into eternity. My faith—so required for life in Christ in this tick of the clock, will vanish in His eternal presence. My hope of eternal bliss will in the instant he has chosen, in the clocks next tock be fulfilled! Yet the love I expend on thee, my heart filled with others, a poured out soul—bent on saving and discipling the others he places in my day will surely LAST FOREVER!
God wound up the clock that men should have choice within it and revere Him. Yet look at time in the Father’s perspective; that which has been—is now~ and that which is to be—is already past. All existence is now. Time marches on and we decide inside it. Yet in eternity, in the GOD/LIGHT all is now. He named Himself; I Am that I Am, He is the eternal now, the Self Existent One.
Now for a moment of imagining we can extend the finite mind to get a glimpse of eternality, eh? So—if we were to take a ride on a ray of light going 186, 000 miles per second; in 1 quarter of a second we can say goodbye to our moon. In about 7 seconds we pass the sun, a ball of fiery flame. In just 14 hours we will be cooled off by Pluto and slip out of our solar system. In 100, 000 years we will course thru His stretched out heavens filling our senses with lights and colors and wonders out to the end of the Milky Way . . . goodbye Galaxy! All the way to the end of Andromeda we whiz—in just 1.5 million years—and then we ping off its outermost edge—and zing back once again to earth! WHEW! We would be gone 3 million years—the earth would be 3 million years older . . . Yet we would have aged—less than a single day!
When approaching LIGHT—time slows *way down*. The earth is set in time, but those traveling in the light are not so. See God IS Light, time present-past-future all exist as one, in heaven. And the dead in Christ will rise first, and we which remain will follow in the twinkling of an eye . . . think on this for a moment—those already in the Presence of God—could be experiencing us there already, right now! HUH? Well, if the vortex of time (in the Presence of the Self Existent One) is no longer linear, it encompasses its own future.
All this, dear brothers and sisters to say—how much do all these struggles and quagmires of thought matter really? Should we take ourselves in our minute of understanding VERY seriously? Oh no, best to be still and to know that He is God. It is all soap bubbles under the sun. Nothing of it is new. We need to be right, we need to have, we need to go and to do such and such—its all soap bubbles! Fame, power, intellect, influence, youth or age, love or lack of it, what of it? It will pass as grass, in reality, 60 70 80 or possibly 90 years and we go—the way of all flesh. And we may ask, why did I do all that stuff, what for? For bubbles—soap bubbles? Or for the pleasure and glory of God, we choose while we still decide in our minute.
bonnie