CURRENCY VERSUS ETERNITY

Well hello there dear gist partner. 

How e dey be? 

How have these past days in September been for you? It is my hope that you are faring well and that you continue to submit to God’s direction for your life. 

Welcome to today’s gist. 

Last week, we gisted about something I learnt from Lori Wick’s ‘The Rescue’ and today we’ll be gisting about something else I learned while reading the book. So Anne had a condition to be pitied: her mother had died, her father had lost his mind due to a severe fever he had suffered; she had been forced to sell their properties and take on all sort of odd jobs to make ends meet for her father and herself. One day, her friend asked her how she was able to survive without letting herself drown in depression, self-pity and discouragement. Anne’s reply struck me and stuck with me: she said that every time life became extremely hard and she was feeling discouraged, she would remember one great truth: her eternity was secured! No, it didn’t make life easier in the sense that she still had trials and challenges to deal with, however, she remembered each time that her trials were flitting and temporary, her life itself was flitting, but her life in eternity, where it really matters, was already secured in God. 

As I thought about this, I realized that the same is true for me: my life and challenges are for a moment but my eternity? That’s secured in God! Because I have received Jesus in my heart and God lives in me, I know that when my time here on Earth is done, I’ll be in Heaven with my Father for all of eternity. In the last couple of days since I read this, especially on Monday when it was 6 months since my father died, I have had to revisit this truth over and over again in my heart. Last week, I was telling how this season is rife with a lot of circumstances that have my heart sore, and honestly I was overwhelmed and sort of struggling.  But God used this to remind me of the one most important truth; that I have eternity already secured. 

So, I may not have any idea how things would play out, I will still need to figure a couple of things out, but reminding myself of the flitting nature of every season on my life, save my already settled eternity, has helped me not to worry we much about the many uncertainties in my life, shifting my focus to eternity has helped me deal with my current life and reality. 

So if you’re here and you have received Jesus in your heart, I want to encourage you everyday to view your life through the lens of eternity; remember that no matter how trying things get, how seemingly murky the waters become, it will only be for a moment, no matter how long the said moment is, and when the moment, and life in general, is over, one truth will remain: you have all of immeasurable eternity to spend with God in Heaven. 

But if you’re here, and you have not received Jesus into your heart and haven’t submitted your life to Him, you don’t have this assurance; in fact, the one thing that is sure is that your eternity will not be with God. So I encourage you today to confess your sin to God and receive Jesus into your heart, submit your life to Him and secure your eternity, that’s the only way you can access and enjoy this assurance we have. And no, going to church all your life without consciously receiving Jesus into your heart does not cut it. 

May God help us realign our vision and view our ‘now’ through the lens of eternity. 

TUNES AND THOUGHTS: our song recommendation for this week is ‘Nagode’ by Solomon Lange. This song is one of gratitude to God for His many gifts,m and blessings to us His children, I pray that as you listen to this song, you remember all the many great blessings God has given you and that your heart is drawn again to gratitude to God. 

Audiomack: https://audiomack.com/EdoborKennedy/song/nagode-ceenaijacom?share-user-id=140072136 

YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx_ue-oPVeo&si=J_wa68u02hi5A43h

Well, that is that about that as far as that is concerned, till next week. 

Love,

Achenyo. 

PS. I’ve already mentioned but on Monday was 6 months since my dad passed, I don’t know how I’ve gotten through the last 6 months, I don’t know how I got through that day in fact,  but I ask that you please keep me and my family, and everyone grieving, in your prayers. Thank you 🙏🏾.