We are drawing to a close our series focusing on having an Eternal Perspective. I hope it has been an encouragement to you. This week I came across the following thought from Jill Carattini, the managing editor of A Slice of Infinity at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. She points out the fact that “the psalmist sees life as it is and the importance of reckoning with the harder parts of it. “Show me, O LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life” (Psalm 39:4). It is a cry aware of the fleeting and even painful nature of time and the mystery of the many things that seem to heighten a sense of something richer. “But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you” (39:7).
The Christian story of that hope doesn’t provide an escape from that harsh glimpse of fragility but an invitation to see that we live somewhere between fleeting dust and the mystery of the one who brought it to life. It includes the fearful but hopeful thought that gaining one’s life might somehow involve losing it, that endings though painful are often necessary, that somehow a broken body may offer the reviving taste of life itself.
When Jesus stood with the disciples staring down the very hour he came to face, he told his friends that his time with them was coming to an end. He told them that his departing would usher in the Great Comforter, that he was leaving to prepare a place for them, and that in his coming and going the world would see that he finished exactly what the Father sent him to do. He reminded them that in the ending of this season was the budding mystery of another.”
The best is yet to come. Keep your eyes on Christ my friends.
Rick