Tape Is Temporary - But Heaven Is Eternal

I don't know what the fascination of tape is, but my daughter uses it on everything.  It got to the point I had to start hiding it, especially during Christmas and birthdays, so I would have some to use.  Problems occurred when the tape quit sticking or got wet.  She just couldn't understand why it wasn't permanent like some of the markers she uses.  So, she added more tape to the existing.  The most surprising use of tape happened a few months back.  She kept trying to catch lizards in our yard with her bug catcher and a stick, but they managed to elude her.  My seven year old tried a new approach.  She came into the kitchen while I was preparing dinner
with a grin and a stressed out lizard.  How did she catch it?  With tape of course!


My daughters excessive use of tape made me think about life.  Everything here on Earth is just temporary.   Do we live our life knowing it is?  So many people have lost jobs they thought were permanent.  Foreclosed homes, lost savings and retirements.  Did the recession change us and give pause for what is eternal?


John 14:1-3

I help teach an adult Sunday School class and one of our lessons was about Jesus comforting his disciples.  In John 14: 1-3 it says, "Do not let your heart be troubled.  Trust in God; trust also in me.  In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you.  I am going there to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." That same comfort applies to us.  A promise of an eternal life and place.  We need only to accept and believe. 


My Prayer:

Dear Lord help each person reading this to trust and rest in you.  Give peace where peace is needed.  Give hope for situations which seem to never end.  "For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.  For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."  Corinthians 2;17-18.


Can you imagine eternity.......infinite.......unchanging.......ceaseless?  Thank you Lord.  Amen


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