Your toes are sifting through the white sand as you lie on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii sipping a Mai Tai or an ice tea.Your feet are sore from hiking the plush green, rolling hills of Ireland. You burn with a great suntan as you bike around Coronado Island in San Diego. You sit within a cool evening breeze as you watch fireworks beyond the backdrop of a royal castle within Disney World. These magical moments are just some of the dreams we may all envision of doing at some time within our life.
Last week my dream of walking on the field of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium was a dream come true. To stand upon the giant star emblazoned in the middle of the field, and look up at the giant stadium of 92,000 seats was awe inspiring. It was a feeling hard to describe and more than what I was expecting. For me it was like heaven on earth.
This past week my church lost one of it's most prominent elder's who lost his fight to cancer but won a greater reward. Today Elder Alex is experiencing a lifetime moment that hopefully we all envision of seeing at the end of our life here on earth. A moment of being able to sit at the feet of The Almighty Heavenly Father for eternity. A moment like no other.
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." - C.S. Lewis
I like what C.S. Lewis is driving at with this quote:
If we make sitting at the feet of God for eternity our ultimate goal and we live it out here on earth through our worship and praise, and how we live our life for Him, He not only rewards us with eternal life, but fulfills those dreams we may have here on earth.
Which makes choosing to live a life for Him a win-win situation.
Magical moments from here to eternity makes living for Him worthwhile.
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