• Life Everlasting

  • Jun 23 2022
  • Length: 3 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Thank you for your prayers.

     

    We have reached the end of the Apostles' Creed.

    I wish I could give you a cookie.

     

    I am somewhat embarrassed to say,

    that as a child I watched a lot of television.

    I watched old movies

    and lots and lots of cartoons.

    In many cartoons, 

    after seven minutes of violence,

    a cat or a dog

    rises up in a shadowy form 

    as a sort of angel and goes to heaven.

    And for many people

    that is their idea of eternal life.

     

    You are a gauzy spirit

    sitting on a cloud

    playing a harp

    and eating bon-bons forever.

     

    Satan loves this lie, because it makes sin look great.

     

    If you are a Christian,

    the plan is

    for you to live forever

    in a body that can never decay or die.

    You will receive a resurrection body--

    and you will continue the journey

    of endless becoming

    you began in this life.

     

    You will also be rewarded for what you do in this life.

     

    This is a kingdom--

    an everlasting kingdom

    and you are an eternal being.

    You were created to become more and more 

    you.

     

    You were designed to be

    more and more,

    every increasingly,

    the fullness of everything that God put in you.

    Eye has not seen

    nor ear heard,

    what God has in store

    for those who love him.

     

    We are back to the Kingdom,

    and back to the important place

    artists and creative people

    have in that Kingdom.

     

    Your work here is not the end,

    and for many of you

    the doorway to eternity 

    is where your greatest work is going to happen.

     

    Don't stop growing.

    Don't stop turning to Jesus.

    Don't stop learning

    and hungering after all that God wants for you.

     

    Even if you live a hundred years,

    this is just the beginning.

     

    Christ John Otto is the director of Belonging House, an international community called to raise up an army of artists who will build Jesus a throne in the earth.

    For more information, please go to Belonging.House

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