Throughout our earthly pilgrimage, every life change we make, draws with it our hope of a better life. Graduation, from elementary school to junior high school, we set our sights on a better school experience. From junior high school to high school, our desire is that school will be much better. And then graduation, and attending college, we feel like our life will be even much better.
In the workplace, we jump from career opening to career opening, in anticipation of a better job, a job where we will receive more pay, a job we find more fulfilling, or a job where we feel we will make a difference.
At the end of our life, we come to the realization that life on this earth is all futile. D. L. Moody stated it well, when he said, “One of the old martyrs said to his persecutors when they were leading him to his death, ‘You take a life from me which I cannot keep, and bestow a life upon me that I cannot lose.’” Eternal life in heaven is a joy and culmination of utopia bestowed upon us.
Jesus wanted us to know that what we do, while on earth, has its rewards. Those rewards will be in direct fulfillment of what we do on earth. “And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice forever’” (John 4:36; NKJV). We have eternal life with Christ, as a result of the works we do for Christ on earth.
There are many steps we take in our earthly life that bring with them a better life for us. Although, the best life we can have, is found in our eternal life in heaven.
Let’s store up for ourselves riches in heaven that we will enjoy eternally. Serve Christ daily! Now, that is a better life to live!
