Everything is nothing

Self-denial - I'm sure I've said that before - is simply an affirmation of Truth. Apart from Christ, we really are nothing. So, then, we are able to lay aside our claims to ourselves and the stuff of this world in acknowledgement that the only necessary thing in the universe is God.

So, the building I'm sitting in - to some extent - isn't real. Said another way, it's only real to the extent that it reflects its eternal purpose...namely, to bring glory to God. It's destined, as is everything and everyone, to be a pile of dust. Likewise, our existence only has value to the extent that we serve our eternal purpose. Ours is the same as the building's - to bring glory to God.

There is no reality apart from that. The writer of Ecclesiastes (my favorite book) is exactly right. The world has no meaning apart from the one given to it by the Creator. We spend so much energy trying to sustain and attain and acquire things that will end up as nothing. We spend so little energy on the only real thing there is.

Sundays have become very cool times recently. I've begun to see the time together as a shadow of eternity. We're participating in the only activity that will continue for eternity. Praise echoes through the chambers of Heaven. It's really very cool. If you let yourself look around and imagine the exact scene in the fullness of the life to come. It really is the only thing that matters.