If you want to short circuit your brain, think about eternity. It’s a hard concept for us to grab because everything we see, experience and know has a beginning and an end. Yet, God set eternity in our hearts. He put something in there that’s more than we can comprehend, but is also something that gives us purpose and meaning. It’s a reminder that we are spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience now. This world and all it offers will never fully satisfy us because we were made for eternity. You and I were built for more than this moment we are standing in. God, who placed this in you, spoke about it in His Word. Put eternity at the front of your mind and let it shape how you think, act and live.
Here are some Bible verses on eternity:
1. Therefore He is able also to save forever (completely, perfectly, for eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede and intervene on their behalf [with God].
Hebrews 7:25 AMP
2. For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 NLT
3. For to me, to live is Christ [He is my source of joy, my reason to live] and to die is gain [for I will be with Him in eternity].
Philippians 1:21 AMP
4. The fruit of the [consistently] righteous is a tree of life, And he who is wise captures and wins souls [for God—he gathers them for eternity].
Proverbs 11:30 AMP
5. Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 NLT
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Devotions by Chris Hendrix 