Donovan has just shot his father and Indiana Jones got one more reason to get to the Grail cup, drinking from it held the promise of immortality and his dad was in desperate need for immediate mortality at least!
He had to pass the “breadth of God”, the several heads littering the walkway suggested previous fatal attempts; the “breadth of God” did a good work of decapitation.
Indiana muttered the words to himself as he crept towards the walkway; “the penitent”, “the penitent” .............
”……….only the penitent shall pass”; the words written in his father’s diary.
Perspiration was running down his spine when it hit him “a penitent man is a humble man...............”. “A penitent man kneels before the lord!”
He immediately knelt and just then the swirl of a rotating blade swept past his hair. He crept forward, found and unhooked the metallic death machine that was one of the 3 guards to the grail cup, the rest is history.
Like Indiana Jones and his father in the “Last Crusade”, immortality is a quest humanity has romanced for centuries; we all wouldn’t want to die. The cosmetic industry as it is today attests to man’s unending devotion to youth, Old age is fast becoming abhorring.
The wisest of men wrote that “He has also put eternity in their hearts” Eccl 3:11.
At the heart of every Faith is the promise of immortality, in Christianity it is called “Eternal Life”, it goes on to suggest that eternal life begins right here on earth and really it does.
The ‘born again’ life is a spiritual one and it is not bound by the limitations of time. In eternity, nothing is going to happen as everything has happened. This perspective will allow us understand the promises of God and the immutability of His counsel, He speaks from eternity. As a child of God, one is blessed with all spiritual blessing (eternally).
Though I might have lost some earthly goods, be undergoing certain trials but from an eternal perspective the total result is always good.
The consciousness of this eternal life and the Kingdom of God
Like Indiana Jones, I’ve knelt before the Lord, believed His word and I do have eternal life!
Okwonna Nelson
www.nelsontalks.blogspot.com
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