{"id":1232,"date":"2010-05-24T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:10:25","slug":"sands-of-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/sands-of-eternity\/","title":{"rendered":"SANDS OF ETERNITY!"},"content":{"rendered":"

2\u00a0Corinthians 5:8-9<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please Him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Today is another special day for Joyce and I. It is the day we celebrate the birth of our oldest daughter, Brenda Joy. That makes the third of four birthdays in May and each is exactly one week apart \u2015 my wife Joyce on the 10th<\/sup>, our son Dan on the 17th<\/sup>, our daughter Brenda (who went to be with the Lord in 1991) on the 24th<\/sup>, and our grandson, Jeremiah, on the 31st<\/sup>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Back in 1991, Brenda was in the University of Washington Hospital in Seattle. I was alone with her one afternoon when she suddenly said, \u201cDad, I feel as if I have been cheated. Grandpa lived to be 74 and here I am near death at just 35. I feel like I am cheated out of half of my life!\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

When I arrived home that evening, I took a piece of typing paper and from the garage floor swept up a little sand. Sitting at the kitchen table I carefully counted out 74 grains of sand. These I placed in a tiny sample perfume bottle. The sand hardly covered the bottom.<\/p>\n

The next day at the hospital I placed the tiny bottle on Brenda\u2019s bed. When she asked what it was, I told her it was Grandpa Thompson. I explained that we have the wrong idea about the length of this life. If one grain of sand is equal to one year in eternity, think of the earth, the stars all being sand. Seventy-four grains of sand is nothing and half of that is nothing. Eternity is what is important.<\/p>\n

Have you made provision for where you will spend eternity? \u00a0<\/p>\n

Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n

– – – Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n

360-570-0074
\nPastorCecil@Daily-E-Votional.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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