Now

... from the rising of the sun to its setting.

 - From Psalm 50

What an excellent description of the meaning of "forever." 

We all want forever. Even the saddest of all people, hopes there is a forever. Because if time could just continue, without ending, there would have to be a point where my sadness ends. Or, if I knew I would never die, maybe that alone would take away my pain.

Suicide is an extreme act, to hasten the coming of Forever. It is within the human heart and spirit, to believe life goes on beyond death. So I'll just get there now, and skip past the inconvenience of several dozen years of life on earth. 

But "the rising of the sun to its setting" is talking about here . . . and now. It is referring to the passing of our days, the continuous routine of our daily grind. And since the sun is always rising, and always setting, somewhere on earth, the illustration in today's Psalm is talking about what Eternity is really about.

Unending Now. This present moment, continuing forever. 

There is no time in eternity. But eternity is best understood as whatever we are experiencing in this moment, but without a sense that the clock is ticking.

Real Eternity is something we can grasp. It really is Eternal Life!

If you take your own life . . . you are not hastening anything. You are skipping something very important: your own life. And that is what makes suicide an even greater tragedy, yet.

If we didn't yearn for eternal life, we could never bear even a simple sadness, or setback. Eternal Life is the very essence of hope. 

It's just got to get better.

And it will. 

You will enjoy The Best Day Ever . . . over and over again. And that seems, to me, way more appealing than all the other descriptions of eternity.