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When we are born, tiny, beautiful and innocent, it is to those who have natural affection and love, a blessed event. Yet the mother who holds the newborn to her bosom for the first time, realizes that the child is doomed. In our present age with many natural blessings from God here in this nation, the average lifespan is still under four score. Death is the final event for the physical being. Death is a seperation of body and spirit. Without the spirit, the body quickly decays and is no more.

While many people prefer to say that this is the end for all people, the spirit is eternal. A spirit cannot be eradicated. From the moment of conception, the spirit is destined to live forever. Where and how it is spent is of the foremost importance.

When one is blessed with health to live past fifty years, it becomes very obvious that the average lifespan is an exceedingly short period of time. Why people become taken up by the things of this world, rather than devoting these few short years in the service of God, is irrational and beyond imagination.

God, in his revelation to mankind, anticipated that most would choose the pleasures of this life over that of being a true follower of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Himself made this statement:

"Enter by the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." (Matthew 7:13-14 NKJV)

As we live, it concerns us about our close family members as to whether or not we will be in eternity with them. It is a concern here. But there will be no concern in Heaven. How this lack of concern will become of non-importance is unknown to us as we think as physical humans, however, we can take the word of God for it, there will be no tears there. When one allows his imagination to reveal a life without a single physical concern, he can become somewhat in tune with it. The penalty for those who choose to do wrong, is even more bewildering. (JHH)