Live for the journey

I was told I seem like the kind of person that lives for the journey. I like that and I think that's right. I think if God wanted, He could take us all away to heaven or the kingdom of God or what have you. Fine. But you would still be who you are. I've heard it said that life is just a dressing room for eternity. Well, then what happens to you in life prepares you for eternity. That's your destination, that's all of our destinations, eternity. Undeniably, it has such an enormous importance, yet there is something you miss if you just focus on that.

The Journey there.

How will you enter eternity? Will it be with much rejoicing because of the life you lived? Or will you be filled with regret at a life wasted? Each choice we make leads us down a different path in life, which ultimately lead to more choices. If indeed you choose the narrow path, you may not walk on it your whole life. You may stagger off and on and pursue other paths for a time, but you will still be aiming at the narrow path and what it leads to. But what of the life we live? Don't you know that God is going to prepare us so we can face eternity? How? Life.

You suffer, you hate, you forgive, you overcome. You end up a different person than when you started. You tell me four years of college didn't change you (five in my case). Maybe you were aiming to get a degree, that was your goal, but to get it you go through so much. (maybe it doesn't change everyone, but I'd argue that if you're not perfect, and no one is, then you still have a lot of room to grow)

You fight, you win, you lose, you cry, you get back up. I always say, to understand a person, you need to walk with them. Go through the journey with them, see how they walk through life. Life is a journey. It ends in the same place for all of us. Death? No, eternity. Death is just a gateway to the eternal. Life influences our eternity as well. Just like the choices you make in life have their consequences whether good or bad, our lives have consequences.

To live a life without any regrets... I wonder, if I will cry in Heaven because of all the time I wasted on this earth. Time I could have spent loving people, praying for people, worshiping God. The Bible says God will wipe away all the tears, well, if you haven't been crying there are no tears to wipe away. It makes me sad. What keeps me going? The journey keeps me going. One day though, the journey will be over, and I'll be done.

There are no goals in Heaven. Nothing to work for, to strive for, nothing to fight against (at least nothing that the Bible says, unless we tend Eden like in the beginning). And if by that time, God isn't what keeps me going, then I'll be very unhappy being with Him. In the end, I don't know, and I feel like I'll be in this place for a while.