Eternity

"This life is as a drop in a bucket compared to eternity!" This is a common statement made by evangelicals, but what we read through the pages of Scripture is that there is no bucket. If there was, then that would mean the bucket could be filled up. A more appropriate way to describe this life with eternity would be by saying this life is as a droplet of water that is about to enter into a bottomless bucket. However, just before it makes entrance, it evaporates and is gone.

Psalm 90:4. "For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it passes by, or as a watch in the night."

To God, a thousand years are as yesterday. It's gone. It is nowhere to be seen and will never be heard from again. It is as a watch in the night, which totals to about three hours.

The emphasis is not in actual terms of time measurement. God is simply showing us there is no comparison. However, even if it was in actual time measurements then think about it again: if a thousand years are as three hours to God, then what does that say about your possibly seventy year life?

View the illustration below. Imagine a timeline where eternity is simply that. The only difference is there is no beginning nor is there an end. It just is. Day 1 of creation until God destroys the heavens and the earth is all just one tiny section held on that line.

I pray that God will teach us all to number our days and live them according to His Word. Let us come to the realization that there is something bigger than ourselves. This life is short, yet the purpose that God has for each one of us is bigger and larger and far grander than we could ever imagine.

God is so big that He meets every one of us where we are at personally, and for us as Christians, He is working all things out for our good. Jehovah God uses every circumstance, every failure and every opportunity to prepare us and to grow us into mature adult children that we may be holy and righteous before Him.

God is not just preparing us for future ministry here on this earth, but He is molding and shaping us for the work that He has destined for us in our eternal dwelling with Him.

He has set eternity in our hearts!