Eternity

Today, I was sitting at a red light, and across the intersection in the median was a cross memorial for someone who had died in a car accident. I've seen them 1,000 times. However, this time it hit me. Just 30 feet in front of me was the place where someone went from being in this world to being in eternity. I realized that I could cross that same intersection when the light turned green and go from this life to eternity. Tonight, I could go to bed and then "wake up" in eternity. As Jonathan Oldacre said, "Christ is just on the other side."

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 90:12

I want to live with the knowledge that eternity is at hand. That at any moment I will leave this life and enter into eternity, and because of faith in Jesus Christ's finished work on the cross for my sins by God's grace I will enjoy heaven with the Father, forever! Just because eternity is far-reaching does not mean that it is far away.