The older I get, the more I have come to see the future as something very different from what I used to view it as and how I used to understand it. My family recently had a family, gravesite monument inscribed with the names of some of the relatives that are at rest there. We did this in order to make this site identifiable for future generations of our family. Don’t get me wrong, those of us who are here right now like it that way too, it’s just that our children and grandchildren will now be able to find and recognize that place as a place that connects them to their past and therefore, their heritage.
It’s kind of funny. When you’re young the only thing that really seems to matter is the future, and when you start to get a little older, you suddenly start to feel more connected to the past than you do the future. Not that we don’t want the future, but it’s just that we can no longer see where the future is going, except that it seems to be going away from us, ironically, even as we go forward in time, forward into that future. It seems that things like that family plot marker are more than monuments to a family or a name, they are monuments to life. They mark the time of man as it marches ever forward. That time seems to stretch out forever, and yet, with each passing year it seems to somehow be more finite than infinite. What I’m saying is that the future is meaningless without its past. Without its past, the future cannot exist and it is, therefore, totally dependent upon the past for its existence, but also for its meaning. The future cannot be better without the past; the future cannot be worse without the past and the future is not the future unless the past has already been.
God has planned a glorious future for all of those in mankind who will allow themselves to be called the forgiven. That future is explained in detail in the Bible as a very beautiful existence; what we call Heaven or Eternity. That glorious future is certainly noteworthy and glorious, all on its own merits; but it is the history, the story of the past of this world, the story of man and his struggle through time, which gives us the real and true perspective of just how noteworthy and glorious that future existence will be.
What an inspiration to live life to the fullest right now and create a past that is noteworthy. We are positioned to create this past not because we do tremendous or astounding things, but because we refuse to let life slip through our fingertips without making our mark in time about the value of life and the worth of keeping the struggle of the existence of man moving forward.
Make the most of your today. After all the future is counting on you! Blessings!
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