September 11, 2014

THE LONGING FOR ETERNITY

Everywhere I turn I see friends writing and signing ‘I was here’ ‘Never to be forgotten’ ‘always to be remembered’ ‘remember me’ ‘I wish we could stay here forever’ ... and I smile.
I remembered my valedictory service and convocation ceremony, the endless hugs, tears, goodbyes, promises to keep in touch and my favourite music: Graduation by Vitamin C and I suddenly realised that my secret thoughts and desires to always be remembered is in all of my fellow companions on this planet called Earth. We all long for companionship and have an innate desire to always stay relevant.
Some musicians sang about it, some writers wrote about it and I think this desire is necessary because we are an eternal being and a never dying soul. It is wonderful to know that though death terminates life on planet Earth, it also leads us into life eternal that we crave for.
Living forever on this planet will not be the best for us and looking at the earth carrying capacity we cannot all live on planet earth at the same time, therefore it is necessary we cast off this mortal body to  gain an immortal body with which we will live forever.
Now that we know we will live forever, there are some points will have to know and we are to make decisions based on them.
There are only two eternal homes and our eternal soul will dwell in either one of them. To the statisticians these eternal home are mutually exclusive; it simply means one can only be in one. When we enter one of the eternal homes we can no longer cross to the other one. Our eternal soul will forever live in either Heaven or Hell. The next question is founding both the necessary and sufficient condition of getting into any of these eternal homes and to also find the one with the maximum benefits and seek to get there in order to maximise eternity.
The necessary condition for Heaven is: Eternal Soul + Salvation
The necessary condition for Hell is: Eternal Soul + Sin
Heaven is filled with joy, gold, grandeur, peace, food, water and God
Hell is filled with worm, pain, fire, constant cries and Satan
Once we are born into this world, we are automatically destined to eternity and that is why eternal soul, which is in every human is the necessary condition for eternity but we have to make great conscious effort to choose between salvation and sin, which are also mutually exclusive events in order to chose our eternal home.
Salvation is non-involvement in sin plus living a life of holiness
Sin is lying, cursing, sexual perversion, stealing, abortion plus living a life of hypocrisy
As time ticks and season pass, we all draw nearer to our extinction from this mortal body into our immortal bodies and the decision we make now will automatically affects where we will spend eternity. I religious challenge and exhort that you ponder the path of Salvation which leads to heaven and it is there that eternity can be maximised.
Choose salvation and you will have maximum utility in eternity in Heaven.