"Believe In Life Before Death"

Too many are frittering their lives away and not even realizing it. People are busy, but with what? It always creates a sadden empty heart when a child or someone young dies. But if we would only think realizing its not about the brevity of life that counts but how our lives are lived. Little children, babies are taken directly to the throne of God. They are the greatest in His sight (Matt. 18:1-3). Innocent and undefiled with a heart of God taken to the side of God. What about the rest of us? BUSY! We are busy with little thought of how we are approaching our eternal lives. If we believe in life after death, maybe we should believe in life before death!

There are things the Lord expects us to take care of in our personal lives. But too many are taking this to the extreme. They get caught up in the thinking of those around, following blindly into this activity and that, running their children into the same devotion to activities and when it is all said and done, we have exchanged eternity for the temporal. We are living for the temporal only hoping (not in the biblical sense) of eternity! The temporal is real to us because we see it but the eternal is where reality really lay. When one departs this life, they will never again, never ever again return to this temporal world. They are in eternity...reality! If we believe in life after death, maybe we should believe in life before death!

People squander their time not realizing eternity looms big. I have done many a funeral of a so called Christian, being asked if I think they made it eternally safe. It sure makes me thankful that I don't have to determine that. The lives lived are filled with so much of the world and so little of the Lord. The efforts of business have taken our minds and hearts away from the reality of eternity. Things that we involve ourselves in are not done in light of eternity. The decisions we make about our families are not done with eternity in mind. It's about money or the things that are passing away, not eternity. If we believe in life after death, maybe we should believe in life before death!

The bottom line is this, hopeful, faithful saints do not see life the way the average person does. Their lives are consumed by righteousness, godliness and wearing the name of our Lord in a way that brings honor and glory to Him. The way they talk, their life involvements and what they wear is for the glory of the One who brought them eternity! So much of our lives are shaped by what we see. If our lives believe in the here and now, our minds and hearts will be shaped by the things that surround us. But if we believe in life after death, we WOULD believe in life before death!