In the book, The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis talks about how, in Hell, all of your life looks like Hell when you look back. Then, of course, all of your life looks like Heaven when you enter into Heaven itself.
We are already living in eternity today. Of course, we can't understand how that works, or what that means, right now. We are still moving in time. But when we die, and time is stripped away, eternity will be all we've ever known. It will stretch back and back, into our lives. The Hell we experience after we die (if not saved) will permeate our memories of earth. The Heaven we experience will do the same.
I love this guys! The worst stuff we experience right now we will see as a joy someday. We will rejoice in our tribulations- and they will seem incredibly dim compared to the light of Heaven that we will be in.
And IF we are living eternity now, it is our job to bring "eternity" into every day life. That's what it means to live for Christ- to bring His eternity into the pain and hurt of the world. We are called to heal, to help, to love- to forceably bring the kingdom of God to those who are not part of it. That's so cool! We are embassadors of eternity! How can we take this lightly?
Does this make any sense? I don't know. But I do feel like knowing that I am living in eternity makes all of this seem to matter so much more.
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