Wonderings
June 19, 2013
I have always looked forward to developing a comprehensive and beautiful relationship with God when I get to heaven. But recently I began wondering how I would manage my relationship with God if I somehow concluded that there is no afterlife. Would I say "That's it. Forget all this religion stuff." Or would I seek Him all the more earnestly, believing that my one and final opportunity to develop my relationship with Him was right now, here on Earth? Moses and Abraham had little or no concept of an afterlife, but look what they did. Why, if you had no more than a few score years to live, would you not seek to develop and expand, to the best of your ability, your relationship with the Creator God Who loves you?
"Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the Beginning, is now, and forever shall be." What does this mean to us? It means that regardless of what we want, do, or say, God will be glorified. That is, each one of us has a choice to become part of the great host eternally glorifying God, or to become eternally irrelevant. There is no other option.