Everlasting Life is Forever Page 2 of 3
Vanishing points are a part of our lives. We will consider two in relation to this study. They are the points of sight before and behind us.
Picture, if you will, standing in the middle of a long, flat, straight road. The past is behind you. The future is before you. This is the analogous road of life. <
The widest part of the picture is where you stand. There may be much to see in the surrounding areas. As we move down the road of life, looking in all directions, we see all things about us. We do purposefully or unknowingly inspect and analyze all of them, especially those things in which we have an interest. And with this viewing, we make decisions. The scenery may change as we move on from “where we came” and the analyzations will continue, but with less time spent on recurring items. And in all these, our travels, we gather knowledge.
But if we look in either direction, where you came from or where you are going, it is the same, a continuous narrowing of view until it comes to a point in the far distance, the vanishing point.
We cannot move backward, but we can look backward in our minds. We have gathered a store house of information. And, as normal with time, information becomes harder to recall, to remember though it is there in the recesses of the mind.
Moving forward there really is little or no change in people except for the things of time, the scenery and crowds around us. The road before us continues on to the “vanishing point.” Yet, it is our destination.
Here in the middle of the road, we stand in the middle of, what we might call, two eternities, the one we came from and the one into which we are going. We came from everlasting and we move toward everlasting.
We have no information as to where we were prior to our birth into this world other than Genesis 2:1, and this is not a very informative comment from God. We were there someplace in some form, but that is all we really know.
And our present lives are almost as mysterious. I am looking at everyday things, the good, the bad, the ugly and the pleasant. Our present lives are controlled by God who, again, has left us in mystery about “tomorrow.”
God didn’t tell us where we came from, nor does He tell us a lot about what to expect in our day to day lives, though the Book of Ecclesiastes does give some insight. God’s words through Solomon, regarding the works of man, those daily ups and downs of which we think we have total control, seem to be many, but they are mostly just a repeat of history. In our history and lives we can only be sure of two things, taxes, 1st Samuel 8, and death, Hebrews 9:27.
Here on earth God has given man some control of things, but ultimately, God is, was and will be the One in control. We have volumes of history that attest to this. And, as to the other, that which comes after this life, we have little, but for the believer, faith is enough.
Where we came from is really unimportant or else God would have said something more about it. And, though God does address things in His word that affect our lives today, it is not a laundry list or a day to day progression of how we are doing, as we might like. And too, His love is evident in His pronouncements and warnings. As one put it, “the Bible is God’s love letters to us.”
“Psalm 41:12-13; (12) And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. (13) Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.”
God “built” this Earth and surroundings in 2 days, Genesis 1:1-2. He began arranging things on day 3. Then, on day 4, He began to adorn it and bring forth life, not as we know it today thanks to the works of man.