Eternal vs. Temporal?
Now………that’s the difference that REALLY MATTERS!!
In my life, I have had the privilege to meet and know some Godly men and women!
I must say, most, do not live in this country.
They are not caught up in the politics or religion or gossip or business or economics of the United States.
None of the above makes any real difference to them and never has!
But……..wait a minute…….these are critical issues!
Not to these people………..these “critical issues” are temporal nonsense that means NOTHING in Eternity to them!
So why do they mean sooooooo much to us? Hillary or Donald?
In my travels around the world more than once, I have discovered certain paradigms about myself.
Paradigms that are difficult to break as I live in the US surrounded by similar people who look like me, eat like me, dress like me, enjoy US wealth like me…….
They do not challenge me to be anything else but…………………like them!
So I get caught up in this paradigm that all this Temporal shit really matters.
And it doesn’t…….
I get too caught up in this world…….But Jesus was clear in John 17: 16
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
As Don Henley sings in a “New York Minute”….
Harry got up
Dressed all in black
Went down to the station
And he never came back
They found his clothing
Scattered somewhere down the track
And he won’t be down on Wall Street
In the morning
He had a home
The love of a girl
But men get lost sometimes
As years unfurl
One day he crossed some line
And he was too much in this world
But I guess it doesn’t matter anymore
This world and its lust, politics, greed, passions and lies can consume you……if you let it.
Shake yourself and remember……
You are not of this world!
You are an Alien……….just passin through!!
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