Eternity .....................

     Ok so I found a great passage that describes eternity really well. if you have Christ in your heart eternity can be perfect and wonderful. either way you can't ignore a choice with such gravity .. either you live for Christ or you don't.


     Forever! For all eternity! Not for a year or for and age but forever. Try to imagine the awful meaning of this. You have often seen the sand on the seashore. How fine are its tiny grains! And how many of those tiny grains go to make up the small handful which a child grasps in its play. Now imagine a mountain of that sand, a million miles high, reaching from the earth to the furthest havens, and a million miles broad, extending to the remotest space, and a million miles in thickness: and imagine such an enormous mass of countless particles of sand multiplied as often as there are leaves in the forest, drops of water in the mighty ocean, feathers on birds, scales on fish, hairs on animals, atoms in the vast expanse of the air : and imagine that at the end of every million years a little bird came to that mountain and carried away in its beak a tiny grain of that sand. How many millions upon millions of centuries would pass before that bird had carried away even a square foot of that mountain, how many eons of ages before it had carried away all. Yet at the end of that immense stretch of time not even one instant of eternity could be said to have ended. At the end of all those billions and trillions of years eternity would have scarcely begun. And if that mountain rose again after it had been all carried away and if the bird came again and carried it all away again grain by grain : and if it so rose and sank as many times as there are stars in the sky, atoms in the air, drops of water in the sea, leaves on trees... at the end of all those innumerable risings and sinkings of that immeasurably vast mountain not one single instant of eternity could be said to have ended; even then, at the end of such a period, after that eon of time the mere thought of which makes our very brain reel dizzily, eternity would have scarcely begun. "
     Such is eternity. our time here on earth is comparably small but the choice we make here is immensely important because it has the consequence of eternity. What suffering and hardship that we have here no matter how big is so small compared to eternity is nothing but vapor in the wind. Remember that our only choice is not eternity of hell but if we choose Christ and to live our lives for him then eternity would be an immense thing to look forward to.