Planning for the Future

How’s your retirement planning going?  If you are already retired how has your plan worked out?  I hope you’re doing a good job and things are going well for you.  Now, let me ask another question.  How is your post-retirement plan working?   You do have one, right?  After all, retirement will end but post-retirement lasts forever.  It only makes sense to do some investing in things that pay eternal dividends.   
 
OK, post-retirement planning sounds like I’m making light of a very serious matter.  But that is not my intention.  I want to draw attention to a very serious reality.  Each of us will experience a finite period of time on this planet.  I believe the average life time here in the USA stands at 78 years.  After that we will be someplace else forever.  How do you compare 78 years to forever?  Our country was founded about 250 years old or just 3.2 lifetimes ago.  The first European settlers hit these shores 440 years ago in 1585.  A mere 5.6 lifetimes in the past.  Both are time spans that don’t even show up on the scale of forever. 
 
So, where do you want to spend forever?  Jesus Christ the only man to ever come back from the grave has said there are only two places that will exist forever.  There is the New Heaven and Earth, commonly referred to as Heaven, and the Lake of Fire – Hell.  No one else has ever returned to tell us different.  Jesus Christ was able to do so because He is the eternal God who chose to also be born into the human race.  The eternal God exists as 3 persons sharing the same existence, the 3 in 1 unity.  Jesus Christ is one of the 3.   
 
There are people who don’t believe that, but their belief doesn’t change reality.  Jesus Christ proved who He is when He rose from the dead.  What belief can change is where you will spend forever!  Because Jesus Christ said whoever believes in Him for everlasting life will receive everlasting life.  A declaration of righteousness comes with that gift of life.  No one can enter the New Heaven and Earth without that declaration of righteousness. 
 
 John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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John 11:25-26 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
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