Eternity.

     The concept of eternity is a hard one to grasp. The mind has a difficulty in wrapping itself around the idea of time going on forever and ever, with no end in sight.
     Think of mathematics for a moment. You can always add 1 to a number that exists. There is no end to numbers. Take the largest number that you can think of, and add  1 to it. Take 1,ooo,ooo,ooo and add a billion zeros to it, and then multiply it by itself, then double that, and on and on it goes. There is no end to a number line, it goes on for eternity.
     Charles Finney used an illustration to help in understanding the idea of eternity. Imagine a bird coming to the earth once every thousand years, picking up a grain of sand and flying away. It would take an "eternity" for the earth to be depleted in this way. Now imagine that same bird depleting the entire universe in the same way; one grain of sand at a time in one thousand year intervals. Think of how long it would take as each planet, the moon, and everything else in the solar system was depleted in this way. When it would all be gone, time would still march on with no possible end in sight.
     Your soul will live on in eternity, long after your death. For those who reject the claims of Christ, and choose to live for themselves here in this life, it will be an eternity filled with anguish and sorrow, as they suffer the just punishment for their sin.
     The old hymn Amazing Grace has a line that goes "When we've been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun, we've no less days to sing God's praise, then when we first begun."
     This is true. For those who have been born again into the kingdom of God, who have their names written in the book of life, eternity will be a joyous time spent in the presence of Christ Himself. We will go on and on worshipping Him. Time will have no end, and we will not want it to end.
     The reverse is true as well. For the unrepentant sinner, time in eternal torment will go on as well. After ten thousand years in the lake of fire, there will be no less days of agony. There will be no end in sight for the wicked. Although they may long for an end, it will never come. Just like that bird coming once every thousand years for a grain of sand, time will agonize on and on and on.........
     Eternity, where will you spend it?