Silence X - Eternity ...

Thursday, Aug 21, 2014. Hello! Hope you are fine today. After about 10 little sessions on silence, we need to finish with the eternal perspective. So often, we are focussed on our immediate environment or our immediate future. We think about today, and perhaps about tomorrow. But that is all! However, we need to view ahead, and see our life in a larger perspective …

Looking Beyond …

Our life can be fantastic. The earth is a great place with far reaching natural wonders everywhere around us. Men itself is a wonder, with reason, with feelings, with the power of will and decisions and endurance. We can start to see the majesty of humans. We are made to be princes and princesses, to have a royal character, to be special!

At the same time we are weak. We are threatened. Our lifetime is limited - and when you get older you quickly realize how strongly limited it is! Years go quickly, and suddenly you have grown old, and did not do what you might have hoped to be able to achieve! On top of these limitations, illness can come any time. Accidents happen, and our life can strongly change within a minute any time!

Life can not only stay within our immediate environment. We need the eternal perspective. We are made for the eternal perspective. We need to look toward eternity! It is not a vain escape from reality, but it means to take reality serious. Reality is more than our immediate environment! The real reality is given by eternity.

Look back from eternity …

We can look from our current point in time into eternity. Silence is a good place to do that, to take time to look towards God and his new world, his kingdom. It has started already, and it will grow and come into full being. But we can also look back from eternity onto our current situation. Let us take time to gain the eternal view, to see what we are and what we want looking back from eternity!

What is it that is relevant in our current behaviour for eternity. What is it that will stay? What is it that we will consider to be of significant value, when we look back from eternity? Perhaps it is a smile, we gave someone. Perhaps it is love, we have been able to provide. Perhaps it is a word of encouragement or consolation, we have been able to give.

Take time to look at your life from the eternal perspective. It is very important to balance your day to day decisions. Sometimes it is of large importance to step out of the routine and the business and think big. Eternity is important to take into account, it is our future, it is reality! (Roland Potthast) ... more texts