From Gary... Time, eternity and you

A picture from somewhere in New Zealand; HOW BEAUTIFUL!!!  From the heights of those marvelous peaks to the depths of that shadow covered pond, this scene is awe inspiring.  I find it most interesting that I am drawn to places like this.  Why?  Those peaks are barren places and the fog hides the full revelation of the scene. Again, WHY? 

An answer is found below...

Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3 (Godsword translation)

 1 Everything has its own time, and there is a specific time for every activity under heaven:  2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pull out what was planted,  3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build up,  4 a time to cry and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,  5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to hug and a time to stop hugging,  6 a time to start looking and a time to stop looking, a time to keep and a time to throw away,  7 a time to tear apart and a time to sew together, a time to keep quiet and a time to speak out,  8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. 9 What do working people gain from their hard labor?  10 I have seen mortals weighed down with a burden that God has placed on them. 

  11 It is beautiful how God has done everything at the right time. He has put a sense of eternity in people's minds. Yet, mortals still can't grasp what God is doing from the beginning to the end of time.

Majestic scenery reminds us of eternity, which enables us to begin to understand God a little more by the works which he has done. And as time goes by, we gradually understand more and more. Although we can never fully understand the works of God (because we perceive time in a linear fashion, rather than a circular one [my idea] like God) we can know what God wants for us.  

Hebrews, Chapter 1 (WEB)

1 God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,  2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.  3 His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;  4 having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.  5 For to which of the angels did he say at any time, 
“You are my Son.
Today have I become your father?”

and again, 
“I will be to him a Father,
and he will be to me a Son?”

  6  When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”  7 Of the angels he says, 
“Who makes his angels winds,
and his servants a flame of fire.”

  8  But of the Son he says, 
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
  9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

  10  And, 
“You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth.
The heavens are the works of your hands.
  11 They will perish, but you continue.
They all will grow old like a garment does.
  12 You will roll them up like a mantle,
and they will be changed;
but you are the same.
Your years will not fail.”

The Scripture says is all- in a word; JESUS. He is our bridge from the temporal to the eternal. This world is a beautiful place, but even when it is but a dim memory, Jesus will still reign. Can you picture being with him forever? Now is the time!!!