Same concept here, only I am re-blogging. :)
" Like most people, I’ve had my doubts about God and heaven and the whole religion thing. It’s so easy to not believe in it because this world tries to defy His existence. The hypocrisy of religious people and leaders, our current messed-up struggles, and the constant failures all around us make it hard for us to believe. But time and time again, I realize it’s worth believing if I look at the bigger picture.“Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who” is the story is about an elephant (Horton) who finds a tiny speck on the top of a floating flower that caught his attention. And while all his friends and neighbors think he’s crazy he believes that there’s life on that tiny speck (called Who-ville). He humorously succeeds in communicating with the Mayor of Who-ville. It took forever for Horton to convince Mayor that Horton actually lived in a world a whole lot bigger than the little speck the Mayor is living on. The Mayor knew only of Who-ville and never imagined life outside it. But there were overwhelming evidence that his whole world was really just a tiny speck in a much bigger world.
It made me think how naïve most of us are. In our home, city, country, and comfort zone, we think this is all there is to life. We think there’s nothing else; and the 70-80 years we have on this earth is everything to us so we try to satisfy our cravings, live it up, and seek the life of luxury. However, we fail to see the bigger picture again and again. In my life, I become so filled up with things around me and with the current trend of “I want this, I want that” that I forget about the eternity that’s just a few decades ahead of me. Whether I believe it’s there or not, heaven is the purest reality and God whispers the evidence of His and His kingdom’s existence throughout my life. A baby in a womb lives in a small world but it’s all the baby knows. All their days is focused on trying to survive in the womb. They probably wouldn’t believe that in a few months he or she would be born into a bigger world. But as we all know, the world is real. Just as real as heaven. The earth we live in is the womb that God’s put us in before our eternal life.
So I’m reminding myself and whoever this reaches that whatever we’re struggling with right now, know that there’s something so much more bigger than that.
"Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal. Instead, store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust don't destroy and thieves don't break in and steal. Your heart will be where your treasure is.
Matthew 6: 19-21 "
It made me think how naïve most of us are. In our home, city, country, and comfort zone, we think this is all there is to life. We think there’s nothing else; and the 70-80 years we have on this earth is everything to us so we try to satisfy our cravings, live it up, and seek the life of luxury. However, we fail to see the bigger picture again and again. In my life, I become so filled up with things around me and with the current trend of “I want this, I want that” that I forget about the eternity that’s just a few decades ahead of me. Whether I believe it’s there or not, heaven is the purest reality and God whispers the evidence of His and His kingdom’s existence throughout my life. A baby in a womb lives in a small world but it’s all the baby knows. All their days is focused on trying to survive in the womb. They probably wouldn’t believe that in a few months he or she would be born into a bigger world. But as we all know, the world is real. Just as real as heaven. The earth we live in is the womb that God’s put us in before our eternal life.
So I’m reminding myself and whoever this reaches that whatever we’re struggling with right now, know that there’s something so much more bigger than that.
"Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal. Instead, store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust don't destroy and thieves don't break in and steal. Your heart will be where your treasure is.
Matthew 6: 19-21 "
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