Life Goes On

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal"- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NIV).

Life goes on; the clock keeps ticking; days pass by; our bodies tell us we too are enslaved to the passage of time. Believers are content though. Though our aging bodies begin to grow weak and frail, we have the assurance of eternal life through the blood of Jesus Christ. Don't look outwardly upon the temporary, look inwardly to the eternal work the Lord is doing in you. Each new gray hair, new wrinkle, complaining joint, forgetful thought is a time investment toward your eternal glory. The clocks not counting up, accumulating time to show your increased aging, it's counting down; either to the return of Christ Jesus or your arrival in His kingdom and hearing Him say: "Well done, good and faithful servant" (Matthew 25:21). However long it took you to read this meditation, the clock counted down several minutes closer to that defining moment when life will go on for all eternity.