Pearls in a Nutshell

 Eternity

Have you ever heard of a glass sponge? 

I hadn't, but recently I was curious to know what animal lives the longest!  You can google it yourself - the info about glass sponges is interesting.  I can't believe I never heard of them before.  The numbers about them being extinct and then found in 1987 use crazy numbers , but what the scientists do agree on is that they can live 15,000 years!  Do you know what that means? That means that the sponges found today were supernaturally created on the fifth day as recorded in Genesis 1. These animals don't have a brain, nor do they have eyes, but they are living, breathing animals.  

I think one  of the hardest concepts to grasp is eternity. Our finite minds can't understand an infinite concept.

But God desires that we understand as much of Him as we can so He has revealed Himself in creation - something we can see and grasp with our little minds, and apply what we see to what we cannot see.

Even 'forever'.

Below is an image of a man-made device that has what is called perpetual motion.

What is it? The marbles in the wheel fall in such a way that they cause the wheel to keep on turning , indefinitely ,forever., for an eternity!  If man can devise something that turns forever all on its own, it should not take much faith to believe God can do so much more - like create bodies that last forever. If Methusalah could live almost a thousand years, what's a few thousand plus more!!??

God also reveals His eternal attribute in space.

I remember an argument I had as a child with my girl friend. We were walking home from school and admiring the clouds in the sky. I don't remember my comment but I clearly remember her response. She informed me quite emphatically that the clouds  bumped up against the sky which was a solid ceiling. I knew enough to know that wasn't true and I argued that the clouds were hanging IN the sky and we could go to the other side. She was not about to admit she was wrong and I finally gave up. I hope she has heard  a more scientific answer since!

We know today that science has not found that solid ceiling, nor the end of space....the farther they can see with ever more powerful telescopes the more there is to see.

IF there WAS a ceiling that still could not be the end because there would have to be SOMETHING on the other side of the ceiling - even if it was empty space.

So if you believe what scientists can see, then can you not believe what you cannot see, if God says it is so? An eternally existing God of all creation has put 'eternity' in space.

Human beings have a sense of eternal life. If they chose not to believe in God, then they look for other explanations, such as reincarnation, or ghosts being departed people,  or some cosmic energy that we are all part of and will be absorbed back into.

Ecc.3:11 says that God "has set eternity in men's' hearts."

God has given us more than enough 'helps' to be able to understand Him and His ways.
He wants us to know that this earth is only temporary, eternity and perfection is yet to come when we will forever live with Him on a perfect newly created earth! 

We truly have been given  everlasting  life so we will live forever with an eternal God!

John 11:25,26 "I am the resurrection and the life.He who believes in Me, though he die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me will never die. do you believe this???"
Do we?  Do we believe that? What a hope it is!