“God
has ... planted eternity in the human heart” (Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NLT)).
“Surely,
God would not have created such a being as man to exist only for a day! No, no,
man was made for immortality”, Abraham Lincoln said.
This life is not all there is
Life on earth is just the dress
rehearsal before the real production. You will spend far more time on the other
side of death-in eternity-than you will here. Earth is the staging area, the
preschool, the try-out for your life in eternity. It is the practice workout
before the actual game; the warm-up lap before the race begins. This life is
preparation for the next.
At most, you will live a
hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity. Your time on
earth is, as Sir Thomas Browne said, "but a small parenthesis in
eternity." You were made to last forever.
The Bible says, "God has
... planted eternity in the human heart." You have an inborn instinct that
longs for immortality. This is because God designed you, in his image, to live
for eternity. Even though we know everyone eventually dies, death always seems
unnatural and unfair. The reason we feel we should live forever is that God
wired our brains with that desire!