Eternal life starts now….

There comes a time when the Lord speaks such a clear, life-giving Word into your life that it merits a pause, some silence, a day or more of utter reflection. Last night was like that for many women at our church. A beautiful woman of God stood before us and reminded us that we were made for eternity.

It’s such a simple sentence the truth of it echoed in Scripture, but something about that truth went straight down into the heart. That’s why we’re so restless, discontented…it’s why we’re searching for something more than People magazines Style Watch. We’re absolutely dying of self-obsession, self-absorption…our souls are languishing to be filled with something better than the stuff of earth, the stench of decaying works of flesh. The words roll around in my mind…We were made for eternity that’s what Christine Cain said. And my Spirit bears witness, I am made heaven, made to commune with the Creator, made for another world…yeah, I am a stranger, an exile just passing through. My desire is Jesus, to live for Him, but fear traps me, shuts the way.

It’s like she said we’re trying to live these safe comfortable lives…and for what so that we can fall safely into our coffin?  No, that’s not what I want. No, not in the slightest. I want what I have been memorizing. The 2 Peter 1 way… to be richly provided an entrance into the eternal kingdom. I don’t want to enter tripping over the stuff of earth, passing through by the skin of my teeth, saved yet so as through fire.

No, a triumphant life, an abundant life that’s what we want to live, isn’t it?!

God is always speaking…sometimes though He grabs your sweet face and searches for your eyes until you lock onto His and give into Him. Falling forward into freedom, smiling at the future, basking at the grace of it all. How He receives my confession, allows my repentance, and refreshes me with streams of tears down a sleep-deprived face.

So, yeah I had to pause to receive yesterday, to decide again that I have decided to follow Jesus, not the world. I  have decided to Trust and Obey. And for me what it means is to live fearless and not safe, secure and not anxious, forsaking the approval/opinion of man for the Holy nod  of my God.

Maybe our God is trying to align us more with His Word…maybe He’s trying to get a hold of your sweet face too and stare into the eyes of your heart a while. The only thing you have to lose is a dull face, be sure those who look to Him are radiant and their faces will never be ashamed. He is everything!