My View of Life - Never Better!

Eternity

Years ago when I was a young college student, my religion teacher shared this story about eternity.

Once there was a tiny bird. He could fly but oh so slowly. He loved to sharpen his beak on a rock several times the size of our sun that was one trillion miles away. He started his journey only taking many billion years to get there. He sharpened his beak, scraping a few grains of sand from the rock. Then he embarked on the trip back to earth. He lingered for a while then, recognizing his beak needed sharpening. He began the journey to the rock again taking the same amount of time to get there, the same few grains of sand scratched from the surface of the rock, and the same amount of time to return. To comprehend eternity, we simply need to understand that as soon as the tiny bird completely scrapes the entire rock into sand, eternity . . . has just begun.

In my novel, "I'll Point to Heaven," Martha Griffin spoke her last coherent words as she lay dying of cancer, knowing that the morphine soon to be given, would completely impede her mental clarity. "For, who is God, if he's not eternal," she said. "And why of all the titles he could carry, does he prefer to be called Father. Are not we, his children, eternal as well?"

And what about the responsibility all of us children of God share? John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Martha knew God and Christ. She'd planted the seed of faith in Christ throughout her life, and also during the months she lay dying . . . she learned eternity. We're all learning eternity.

So why, why, why are so many leaders of our country, and so many Americans jumping on the band wagon to rid God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost from their lives? Why do they want to remove "In God We Trust" from our currency? Why do they want to remove the free agency established by God from among us and force us into socialized servitude? Why do they want to reform religion, replacing the true and living God with the self-proclaimed god of the world? Why do they want to remove the commandments from public places? Why do they want to replace obedience to God's Commandments with sin and corruption, and embark on a dead-end road of self- indulgence and self gratification?

Has the spirit of God not touched them throughout their lives? Has it not brought, on countless occasions, peace to their soul? Does it not prick their conscience that this puny little mortal sojourn of 70 or 80 years is close to an end? Can they reason away that now is the time of probation? That soon they'll be standing before their maker, and beholding the wondrous blessings that he wished to grant them throughout all eternity, but they turned him away? Will they not weep, knowing they have become captive to the devil, and are now miserable like he is?

One of my favorite movie lines is in the animated film, "Balto." Balto, the wolf, calls out to his friend the goose to wish him luck in this dangerous, hostile, biased race. The goose, against it from the start, calls back. "I don't wish you luck, I wish you sense!"
Sense! Why take the chance? What a no-brainer. Come unto Christ where he will fill you with comfort, joy, peace, knowledge, and everything good, (win win,) for all eternity.