RECOGNITION

I have a memory of a state of mind. Well, if I'm honest, it was a state of soul.
 
I was so checked out, about 5 years old, that when the youth group leader was calling my name in the quiet group of about 50 kids, I did not even hear him. It was when all eyes were on me, and a few sitting near me shook me and called my name, that I snapped out of it. Where was I? I know exactly where I was, and have in some respects been there since.
 
Solomon writes, 'God has put eternity in the hearts of men.' (Eccl 3:11)
 
Eternity is a place, an expanse that has no limit of space or time. Once there, always there. What do we see there? Well, we see this life on earth from the outside. We see its short sprint, its flare and its smoke and its dissipation. We see that one is only what one is, and no amount of man-made recognition or even personal experience can touch the soul's value, the mortal destiny.
 
One sees that Another has the only say on one's life, not even one's own heart. This is an eternal space, and it can be heaven or hell.
 
There is a time for everything (also Ecclesiastes), and this includes a time to reach for a rope in dark and deafening waters. It is against the backdrop of this surge of the power, the essence, the truth about life and death, light and darkness, that the call and invitation of Jesus Christ 'cuts to pieces' or 'crushes'. (Luke 20:17-18)
 
Jesus said, 'I am the door. He who enters through me will be saved.' (John10:9)