in light of eternity....

so. here i am. posting a blog. oh, this is lindy by the way. and i'm not just posting because ryan asked me to :)...i've been thinking that i need to post this blog soon anyways.

so what God has really been driving home for me lately, starting even since jared died last february, is having an eternal mind set. it's like God's put toby mac's song loose my soul on repeat in my brain and it's been my sound track for life these last few weeks. and i actually LOVE it. :) especially this chunk...."Father God i am clay in your hands. help me to stay that way through all life's demands...i don't wanna gain the whole world and loose my soul."

when we try to grasp how tiny our lives here are on earth in the spectrum of eternity...it seems that we can basically take anything. how do our 100 (to be generous) measly years here on earth compare to the billions of trillions of melleniums of centuries of decades that we will spend in Heaven in the arms of Jesus with those we love most?

suddenly, we can handle the prospect of living our entire lifes as a missionary way easier! the idea of living in a strange, third world country away from those we love, eating weird foods, and using squaty potties the rest of our lifes isn't so scary. i mean we have all of ETERNITY to spend with most of the people we were away from (and then some) and to eat any kind of food we want, and if there will be no more squaty potties then why not? PLUS if we can reep rewards from our sacrifices on earth AND in Heaven? shoot, sign me up! skipping a few shopping sprees that we didn't need anyways isn't so intense...you can't take your mall bags with you anyways. hurt feelings and arguments fade faster and easier....i mean will we really remember them in Heaven anyways? we can handle the loss of a love one that much easier if we remember that they will meet up with us in Heaven. pain and sickness that we go through takes less of a toll on our attitude when we realize that our ETERNAL bodies will be perfect. even the nerd that talegates us and then cuts us off is less frustrating, because we won't be dealing with that. :)

even before ryan talked about this a few mondays ago, i've been really thinking and trying to make this a part of my life. when we have an eternal perspective, everything changes, or at least it should. the way we spend our time changes. the way we use our money changes. how much time we envest into service changes. the focus of our relationships change. the way we make small and little choices changes. our entire lifes change. the way we think, react, envest and spend like will be completely changed. if we let it, this an eternal mindset can completely turn our world upside down. and i believe that the eternal focus that Jesus lived out was one of the major keys to his ministry. and HE's the only man who lived just 33 years and yet 2,000 years later...his revolution still is alive and well. but it's up to us to keep it that way.