Day 4 (Nov. 20)

As people, we are very limited. If we want to do something, we first have to take into consideration a multitude of variables that could affect our "doing." Even considering these variables, it's often as likely as not that the "doing" won't ever be done. As humans here on earth, we're constrained under many, many variables and laws that we just can't ignore or circumnavigate. Take the law of gravity, for example. Most people would say they want to be able to fly - "like superman, right? That'd be fun." Well, then, why don't you just go ahead and do it? "Umm... good question." With a good answer: we are limited!

Even our thinking is limited. We look around and see only the now. Think about that: now is such a small, microscopic part of the earth's history. In fact, now is a small part of even just today. It's here, and before I can even write that it is here, it is gone. Now exists for an immeasurably small amount of time - it can't really be measured. Yet now is all that we, as people, observe at any given moment.

So, knowing just how small now is compared to a day or a minute or a second, compare now to forever. That's comparing the smallest possible item to the largest possible item - an immeasurably small amount of time to an immeasurably large amount of time. You can't even compare the two but to say they are powerfully opposite.

People are perfectly fine with this, however. Humanity as a whole has come to except this fact of life - really, what else can you do? But even beyond this, humanity has become blind to the fact that now is not all there is. Forever is all there is. So let's battle our natural now mindset, because now won't last. Once God begins to open up our limited minds to forever - to infinity - our focus, goals, ideas, desires, and consequently our words and actions, will change. Stop focusing on now! See, from the time I wrote that to right now, now changed. But forever does not change. Although we can't fully understand infinity, we must strive after it in earnestness and prayer.


*Pick a Bible verse or passage that involves focusing on eternity rather than on this earth, and memorize it. Meditate on it and, if possible, meet with another believer to discuss it.


"For, 'All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off, but the Word of the Lord endures forever.'"
- 1 Peter 1:24-25a

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."
- Revelation 22:13

"but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away."
- 1 Corinthians 13:10

"We are a moment, You are forever, Lord of the ages, God before time;
We are a vapor, You are eternal, love everlasting, reigning on high."
- Be Unto Your Name