othing lasts forever. Right? All you have to do is just take a look around. We have junkyards, garbage piles, and old cars and trucks dotting the countryside. Telephones and computers are obsolete by the time you get them home. Counselors and psychologists have offices full of people who are either trying to justify throwing away a relationship, or have been "let go" because they didn't fit the new plan in a life or job somewhere. Society itself is even disposable. What we had to have yesterday is just in the way today. The beautiful people keep changing their minds. Companies have gone out of business because they put too much emphasis on making something the best it could be instead of keeping up with the changes. Something that lasts too long cramps our style. We want to be "with it".

The whole idea that God Himself never changes or wears out is a challenge to grasp in a culture like ours. Then, if you add the concept that souls last forever as well it becomes almost too much for the modern mind. Sunday at Hillside we looked at Paul's amazing chapter in first Corinthians 13 on "Love". One of the striking truths he gives is that Love never ends or fails. It's not what we are used to. It's almost too strong. It sure isn't what we see around us every day in life under the sun.

It takes a counter-culture attitude to deal with the reality of an eternal God and His eternal love for us. He built us to last as well. Our souls will outlast everything we will ever own, even our bodies. Doesn't it only make sense that our lives be organized around what really matters eternally? How's your perspective on life? Short view, or eternal?