Imagine picking up a book, reading the foreward, loving it, and then stop reading. "I just don't want to leave the foreward, it was so good, I just want to focus on that." Crazy, isn't it? The reason we buy a book is for the story, not for the foreward. The foreward simply gives us a small taste of the delight to come.
Yet, as Christians, that is often how we live our life. We fear the end of it. We want to stay right here in the "foreward," when we know the best part of the story, eternity, is what comes next. God wants us to live out every day of our lives for his glory. But we shouldn't fear death. "Death has been swallowed up in victory." (1 Corin 15:54)
The story of my life is a good one, but I prefer to think of it as the foreward. Because death is not just an "epilogue" at the end of my life. It is not the end. It is the beginning.And if we love God, we need not fear the end of our days, as they only begin our eternity.
Kelly Combs is a Christian wife, mom, writer and speaker. You can learn about Kelly by visiting her website at www.kellycombs.com
4 comments:
That's a great analogy. Thanks for sharing!
I was thinking about your sister the other day and wondering how she is. Tell her I miss her and her fun ADHD blog!
This reminds me of something I read the other day about the parabke of the sower and how we can make the mistake of eating the seed and not letting it take root. We need to go further and allow the Word to be rooted and grow in us, so it can produce fruit just like we need to go beyond the epilogue to get the benefit of the full story.
AMEN
Great, timely reminder Kelly. Thank you for that perspective.
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