Make Investments in Eternity

Jesus said, “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if not, I would have told you. I am going away to prepare a place for you. If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also.” John 14:1-3

I’m going to the Father’s house. I am part of God’s family. He has redeemed me. He has adopted me. He has caused me to be born again to a living hope. My confidence is in Him. Because I know I’m going to my Father’s house, it changes everything about how I want to live here and now.

I want to make investments in eternity now, because this life is so short. Our life on earth is like a vapor. It’s over so quickly.

Billy Graham said several times in his later years that the biggest surprise of his life was how quickly it had gone by. Occasionally, some of us get a glimpse of this when we realize that our children are the age we think of ourselves as being. All of a sudden, I realize, “If my son is that age, I can’t be that age anymore.”

I regularly went to see my very elderly mom. She lived to be ninety-nine. At the end of her life she had senile dementia, but she still loved Jesus and she still loved me. We’d talk a little bit and then she’d say, “Well, you’re looking well.”

I routinely responded, “Thank you, Mom. Do you know how old I am now?”

“No, how old are you?”

Year after year, I would answer, “I’m fifty-three … fifty-four … fifty-five … fifty-six.”

She consistently asked with amazement, “Then, how old am I?”

When I told her, she said predictably, “No. Really?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Am I really?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Well, that’s just hard to believe. God has been kind, hasn’t He?”

“Yes, ma’am, He has.”

My mom is gone now. I will be soon. You will be soon. We’re all going to spend eternity somewhere, and we need to live our days now in light of the fact that we’re going to spend eternity somewhere.

If you have not come to know Jesus, I plead with you, give your life to Him. Meditate on your identity in Christ. If you aren’t in Christ, if you don’t really know Him, if Jesus is someone about whom you believe certain things but not someone you know on a personal level, I plead with you to trust Him as your Savior and Lord. Ask Him to save you. If you’re not sure that you know Him, tell Him.

Say to Him, “I’m not sure I really know You. I want to know You. Please, change my heart.”

None of us deserves God’s grace. None of us is worthy. None of us is good enough. Anyone who thinks they deserve God’s grace is not saved. We all need God’s grace. This is what makes it grace.

And, if you already know you belong to Jesus, live like it.