ETERNAL INVESTMENT
READ: John 14:1-21
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
John 3:16
You are predestined to live forever. Obviously, seventy years on this earth is not your whole life. Your existence on this earth is just a small part of your real life. All dead people are still alive! They are living either in Heaven or in Hell. Do not start thinking to yourself, “I am predestined to go to Hell so nothing can change me. I am destined to self-destruct and to commit sin every day because I am destined to go to Hell.” Wrong! You are not destined to be in Hell. Living in Heaven or in Hell for the rest of eternity is a choice you will have to make for yourself.
You are destined to live forever in a mansion in Heaven. Jesus has gone to prepare a place for you. God has in store for you something far greater than any mansion on this earth. Anything you have on this earth will be lived in for only seventy years or so. Ten thousand years from now the mansions you have built on earth will be buried in the sands of time.
The disciples were astonished when Jesus predicted that the temple would actually be destroyed (Matthew 24:1-3). The temple of Jerusalem was one of the great monumental structures of the time. Yet, Jesus predicted that not one stone would remain on top of the other. He knows the future of every building on this earth and He did not bother to even build a church building. Honestly, our future is in eternity. We must live for the eternal and plan for the eternal.
Have you ever wondered why Solomon was so depressed (Ecclesiastes 2:4-7,11)?
When Solomon looked on all that he had achieved, he realised that it was truly useless. Let’s invest in eternal things!