Many theologies in the world today teach salvation from suffering in an afterlife. That humanity is doomed to suffer from the shortcomings of mortality in the world we call “material,” and if they take the right steps to redemption, they’ll find a better life after death.
If one were to believe the above, they might be setting themselves up for a lifetime of temporal suffering. This is not fun, and it’s not what Jesus Christ taught.
Jesus Christ taught us how to find freedom from suffering now, here on earth. We don’t have to wait for an afterlife.
Eternal life doesn’t start in a place called the hereafter. That wouldn’t be eternal life, for eternal life has no beginning. Eternal life always exists. We possess it now. We have the blessings of eternal life to experience now.
In referring to the apostle Paul’s understanding of what Jesus taught, Mary Baker Eddy writes, “Now,” cried the apostle, “is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation,” — meaning, not that now men must prepare for a future-world salvation, or safety, but that now is the time in which to experience that salvation in spirit and in life” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 39).
Wait no more! Death is not the gateway to eternal life and its blessings. Truth is the open door that reveals our perfect life with God. God is Life. And it’s a door we can walk through now. Not through dying, but through living. Through living the Life Jesus has outlined before us.
Live Life now!
In the infinity of good, the door to salvation is only a step, a thought, away, wherever we are. May I share https://kencooperpoetry.com/i-have-set-before-thee-an-open-door/
God is there. Love is holding the door open.
Thank you, Evan. The picture shows me that walking through that
open door, I leave the nothingness of material woes behind me –
just a limited box – an empty house, or consciousness of materiality. . Through that open door I will find the unfolding of the infinite spiritual reality of life, along the beautiful straight and narrow pathway opening out into God’s eternal, glorious creation. Who wouldn’t follow Christ on that pathway when we know what wonders it will reveal to us –
From glory unto glory, be this our joyous song,
From glory unto glory, ‘Tis Love that leads us on;
As wider yet and wider, the rising splendors glow,
What wisdom is revealed to us,
what freedom we may know.
(Hymn 65 v 1)
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We are so blessed to have SpiritView, Evan. Thank you ever so much for your contribution to our spiritual growth and understanding — which supports our God given dominion.
Beautiful Evan,thank you! Thank you Ken for sharing your very meaningful poem.