By Le Page Smith, MA, Board certified chaplain
Take a pencil or pen, make a circle. Now make another and another creating more and more circles around your initial circle. Do this over and over until you want to stop. But, give it a “go” for a number of times. Now, look at your drawing as an illustration about eternity. It is never ending. Realistically, making circles to truly illustrate eternity could never end. But you get the idea.
Now look at the space within your initial circle. Draw a piece within it, as if the circle is a pie. Cogitate the truth here: Life on earth is simply a “small slice” of eternity’s never-ending existence.” Yet, what we do with our time and talents while here on planet Earth will affect what eternity will be like for us. We are, in effect, fueling our eternity before we get there when we find God’s truth and guidance for us while living out the little bit of time we have here.
In 2 Corinthians 12:2–4, the Apostle Paul describes a time when he was caught up to the third heaven. In 1 Corinthians 2: 9, he wrote, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them through His Spirit.”
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Author info. Joy Le Page Smith is a Board certified clinical chaplain and author of four books. VIEW FREE- – her children’s book titled: The Little Mountain Goat Who Was Afraid of High Places available at Healing-with-Joy.com Her website allows readers multiple helps in their journey through life.
Always daunting to ponder eternity – if we think of it as a tiny slice, it does put our worries a fears in a more manageable perspective. We’re instructed to trust God’s Word- I pray that my trust will be more prominent than my fears.
It is life that is a tiny slice of time as compared to eternity. At my age I am excited about the fact eternity seems more real with each year. I have some favorite verses about fears would you like to have them?