The Life to Come

2 Corinthians 5:1-4
"Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life."

I heard this great talk tonight and was reminded and encouraged of the hope of eternal life we all share in. That we, here and now only experience a glimpse of the everlasting life to come. Death is not the end, but the beginning. This was the illustration that was used (Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis).

"Then Aslan turned to them and said: 'You do not yet look so happy as I mean you to be. There was a real railway accident,' said Aslan softly. 'Your Father and Mother and all of you are as you call it in the Shadowland-dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.' And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at least they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."

-Lloyd