We believe that death is not the end. Do we live like we do?

As a Christian, most of us believe with all our heart that death is not the end of existence. Far from it. But do we live like that? What do we view life as? Do we view it as a short time to get a job, make some money, have some kids, go to Disney World, and try to cram as much fun in before we go on? Or do we view it as a short amount of time that we have to witness to a lost world? I fear it is the former for most of us.

The other day I was just going about my day, when suddenly it just kind of hit me that I'm going to live forever. Like forever! I suppose that because I've been going to church nearly every sunday since before I was even born, that fact has become not so incredible to me. I've always known that people live forever, but it had never really just hit me like that.
I've lately been thinking about what I'm going to do with myself once I graduate highschool- whether or not to go to college, if so, where to go, and what to major in, whether or not that degree will be able to support a family, when I'll be able to have time to write music, whether I should become a part or full-time musician, you know, "How am I going to make it in the world?"- but then I just kind of stopped and realized, "So what if I end up starving to death because I chose to follow God and change the world with my music?". If God wants me to do this, then I need to just do it, and if I starve to death, then I'll just go on to the next part of life a little sooner.
Something I saw the other day helped me to think of it in an interesting way. Think of yourself before you were born, and imagine you could actually think then. Maybe you know that there is life after you are born, but you just kind of forget about it because life inside of your mother is all that you've ever known.
Now, think of yourself here on earth, and you know that there is life after death, but you just kind of forget about it because life on earth is all that you've ever known.
But there is eternity after death, not just another hundred years, but eternity!

So we have just a short time here on this earth as we know it. But what are we doing with it? A lot of us are getting rich and having fun. That's a poor use of your time on earth. See, all people have eternity after death, it's just a matter of where you spend eternity. You know what the two options are: Heaven and Hell. God left us here for this time for just one purpose, and that is to let this world know. That's the name of this blog. We have to let this world know. Let them know that there is eternity after death, and they can decide how they spend it.

Don't think of your life on earth as the sum total of your entire life. It's just the very beginning.

Let this world know.

~ H-A Forgiven