I know we know this but like so many truths a regular reminder is needed. I read a quote by Zig Ziglar, well known motivational speaker, that said, “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
While there are certain principles and/or motivations that we have heard time and time again there are some we need to ponder daily. A friend called me early this morning with just one of those reminders. I was barely awake when he began to talk to me about the importance of considering eternity in spite of the trauma of this temporal life. ( I don’t know why but his fatherly voice of care and concern always makes me cry.) He went on to share with me some insights he felt he had received from the Lord that morning. Not only the focus on eternity but that the pain of the ‘here and now’ was part of the preparation for eternity. He said that preparation of my heavenly garment was being bespeckled with jewels and that these jewels were being sewn on with a very large needle which ‘pricked’ the garment with each stitch. The pricks of that large needle, as it was fastening the jeweled stones, were the temporal pricks of pain that I am now enduring.
Now I know that this man is not given to ‘etherial’ musings but rather he is a somewhat straightforward, in-your-face kind of guy so when he began to speak to me this visual, I listened. I ‘needed’ to be reminded that the way we traverse through the temporal tragedies of life is to keep our eye on the goal of eternity. It is not that we are to become passive in ‘fighting the good fight of faith’ but rather fight with the secure footing that the outcome has been assured!!
I know you know this…“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” ( I Corinthians 4:17-18)




