This morning we had to get out of bed a little earlier. We were going to be interviewed by the media team at 7am. So we needed to be ready. We had our quiet time with an old ‘Daily Bread’ from Jan. 3 this year. It is March 1 and we need the new Daily Bread. I kept this one from Colossians 3, to be heavenly minded. The small story was on “Gladiator” with Russell Crowe. The statement “what we do in life echoes in eternity”.
Heavenly minded. I have heard the expression “so heavenly minded he is no earthly good.” I don’t want to be thought of as “no earthly good”, but I do want to be heavenly minded. What we do in life echoes in eternity. What is so difficult to grasp?
Then we had our interview, and we were asked how it is to be married out here. I guess I answered with my feelings, not so much my intellect, maybe. I guess the question was in comparison to being single, but for me, I have no idea what it is like to be single out here. I can’t imagine coming out here with these amazing women and trying to remain heavenly minded. I think it is an amazing blessing to be married out here.
Another way I look at this question is in comparison to being married in the states? As if being married in the states was a cake walk. When we were planning to come out here, people would ask if my wife were also coming. Even the thought of doing this separate is dumbfounding. A huge motivation for coming out here was the good of our marriage and our descendants. After years of observing marriages, marriages in the church. Marriages outside the church. Marriages with money. My job in moving was a blessing because I had the opportunity to witness the mansions of the rich and famous. OH THE BLESSINGS! A huge prison. A fancy prison. Show off your dungeon, put yourself in exile. I saw the relationships of the people we moved and realized the misery of it all. The answer to happiness was not found in the size of the house.
Being together was a huge motivator. To serve together. Not doing two separate lives and paying the bills and watching T.V. I couldn’t see doing that life.
I think we have basic misconceptions about life, about marriage. I believe God created me to love me. I believe that God created Linnea to love her. I believe God brought us together, to love us, our relationship. I believe I have a responsibility to return Linnea to her Father better that I received her.
I am not sure about what marriage means in the afterlife, but I do believe what we do on earth echoes in eternity, and for us there is no better place than this. I don’t understand how married people would not want to do this.
