What was promised to us long ago is a piece etched from the greatest love story we will ever know
On this earth, you’ll make memories . . . of moments that you can never have back again . . . but you once had them, if for but the briefest of fleeting moments, you did once have them.
That is the bittersweetness that is living.
In some way or another, most want to live life to the fullest, but few are willing to let go of the short moments that come and go while living.
When you’re young, this is hard to comprehend fully.
So, childhood into youth allows oneself to be almost exempt from these wretched laws of this time here on earth . . . at least while ignorant of them in their entirety.
Eventually though something snaps and the once lightness of youth is replaced without permission for a sudden and heavy lingering darkness.
I have wanted so badly to take in certain special moments I’ve lived in and through the same way I wish I could re-live those moments when looking back on them after they have come and gone.
I am usually more soft-hearted when looking back upon beautiful and rich memories . . . that of which I could somehow go back to.
Sadly I tend to be more thankful and appreciative of them than I am in the moment I’m living them.
Why is that?
Worrying about stupid things . . . little things getting the best of me . . . subtle stresses of an everyday grind tend to take away from what this life has to offer.
Even when I try to ignore the stresses that knock at my thought’s door . . .
Even when I am wanting to with every part of me, I cannot seem to take in moments for what I realize they are to me after they are long gone, never again to be lived.
Yes, life takes much from us, but we do gain some really beautiful things along the way.
What a depressing concept, I mean, really.
It’s no wonder people search for more . . . because somewhere, deep down in our very being, something more exists.
So we hold on to a hope that somehow, someway we can hold on to things longer than what seems possible.
That is why we take hundreds of photos on one vacation or trip.
That is why we have pictures of loved ones and dear memories all around us . . . in our bedrooms . . . even work spaces . . .
We are being told by a primal tattoo written upon our hearts that there is indeed more to this life . . . at least there was meant to be.
I refuse to stay searching for something so foolish, for I know it will be in vain . . . at least on this side of heaven.
No, we were created for more, surely, but, just like the moments that turn into memories we will never again relive or revisit, there is something unreachable here on earth.
That is the most bitter part of outlives here.
The immortal living in a mortal structure.
But, what good is a struggle in a story without something like hope to pull you through?
God has given us that.
No, it isn’t that easy . . . but it is that simple.
In fact, God warned us, in a fatherly act of kindness, life will be hard.
He promised that life would be missing something that can not be found here the way we want it to be.
The deeper translations is depicting us facing moments where we will feel confined and without options to escape what we are in.
That is a description of life without God.
But Jesus’ last promise before ascending into heaven was this:
“ . . . but take courage, for I have overcome the world”
God reassured us, like the strong and nurturing husband He is to us as the bride . . . that we would have a hope.
The word “overcome“ used there translated to infer a battle and a victory that was carried off from it.
God fought the battle we could not win ourselves . . . and made it possible again to be eternal in life with Him.
This is not a religion for this did not come from any man’s doing.
What was promised to us long ago is a piece etched from the greatest love story we will ever know.
He gained back the eternal world we lost and gave us hope from a broken world that would have in and of itself left us without.
For what is life if not life eternal?
There is no life without eternity.
And life without eternity is death.
God fixed something broken . . . bridged a gap that was a chasm . . . and He gave us an eternal life that we don’t yet have here on earth . . . but one day . .
We will.
And it gets better . . . for this is only something His children would understand.
The eternal life we will one day have will be with Him, and there is nothing better nor more fulfilling.
-scripture used found in John 16:33
