The Dot That Determines Eternity

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If our life on earth were a dot made with a pen on a sheet of paper, eternity would be like travelling around the globe a million times. Yet this tiny dot determines how we will spend that eternity—whether in the presence of God in heaven or in the total despair of hell.

A saint once had a mystical experience of God so profound that, in his ecstasy, he exclaimed, “If paradise were like this, I would need no other paradise.” Jesus then revealed to him that what he had experienced was only a glimpse. If that experience were like a painting of the sky, the paradise that awaits us is the real sky itself.

All the goodness we experience in this life is but a foretaste of the fullness that awaits us in God. Every glimpse of beauty, love, joy, and truth points beyond itself to our ultimate union with Him.

Perhaps, then, death need not be only something we fear. For those who belong to Christ, it becomes the gateway to the reality for which we were created.

Maranatha. Come, Lord Jesus. Come.

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