By Pastor William F. Kumuyi

Today, unfortunately, the story has not changed. There are many people in the church who think that there is nothing worth living for, except for the base crass materialistic valuables of life that fades away.

There is nothing of eternal worth that matters to these sets of people. Of all the men ever lived on the surface of the earth, the scriptures describes these category of people as ‘most miserable’.

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In order for Paul to sustain his hope of getting to hea-ven, he ventured into spiritual combat with men and women that manifest beastly nature and attribute in Ephesus. To him, if there were no existence of a future life after death, he would not have bothered to risk his life fighting evil men and women. But he would have preferred to seek after the pleasures of life, because death would not have mattered in the nearest future.

That is exactly the attitude of the people who do not have eternity in view. They drown themselves in pleasure and engage in unhealthy rivalry, with the aim of amassing wealth so as to satisfy their insatiable hunger and greed for materialism without any hope of life after death.

That is exactly the nature of the people who do not have hope in God nor believe in eternity for which to prepare.

Ephesians 2:12 “That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.”

Do you know that if you do not have anybody who loves you residing outside your own city or if you do not have any fancy for a particular city other than your locality you will scarcely develop the interest to live in that place? This is what I mean.

For instance, you have heard about America and have read about the place and, perhaps, you might have even seen the map of the country. But if you do not have anything to do there, or you do not have anybody there or the country does not catch your breath away, you will not think of going to America.

Likewise, the people that do not have Christ do not think about heaven. No, not even once, because there is no magnetic force that will pull them to heaven. If they hear about heaven, at all, it does not register in their conscience, because they do not have the charm or ingredient that will attract them to heaven. That charm is none other than Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the number one citizen of heaven.

But the people that know that Christ said that “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” They will be living with eternity in view. If you are part of them, you will be living with the full awareness and consciousness that one of these days Christ will be coming to take His people home and you inclusive.

But if you do not know that there are mansions awaiting you in heaven, you will have that impression that your home is this passing world; and all your excitement will be on the things that are happening in this hapless world. The news of the world will be the best news that you could ever want to hear.

Also, you will want to live for the life that now is. You will live for the politics and the entertainment of this world. You will celebrate the dead and the birthdays with pomp and pageantry, because you do not have any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ. You will view money as the greatest possession on earth and as a result of the love you will have for it, you will do anything and everything to amass it; thereby fulfilling the scriptures in a very negative light because it will plunge you into all evil. That is not all. There is also the angle of legitimate and illegitimate fleshly gratification whenever your body craves for the opposite sex.

Unfortunately, that is the life of many churchgoers who flock the streets on service days. They practically become like atheists by subverting the will of God for their own self-willed tendencies and with no eternity in view.

Nevertheless, I am here to reinforce the importance of living with eternity in view by telling you that from today, you should always live with eternity in view. If you could do this every morning when you wake up from sleep, by telling yourself that life is brief and it will soon end; any time you are at a cross road, bear it in mind that life’s difficulties will not last forever, but that life will soon come to a close. Hence, where will you spend eternity? Any time you are faced with important decisions in life such as career prospect, the decision about marriage, the decision about investment, etc. Remember that life is short and that the most important investment one can ever embark upon is that of eternity.

Where will you spend eternity should readily come to mind. Any time you are confronted with the message of Christ, the message for your soul’s salvation, your attitude should be – where will I spend eternity, if I die any moment from now? Any time you have been hit hard by the word of God and your flesh is trying to resist just remember that life will soon end. Where will you spend eternity?