***Insight*** Endurance & Eternity


Time. It seems it is constantly slipping through our fingers. Forever an enemy, and yet, also a comfort in the right circumstances. As we get older, and even now I'm sure, our lives are ruled by clocks. We understand that our lives are limited and we live, usually, for the thrills and pack as much activity as we can handle int0 the smallest amount of time possible.

And when we waste time, we feel the consequences.

I think these factors limit our ablilty to fully comprehend the endless vastness that is eternity.

"...Endure to the end." Yes, you have heard it many times before. And upon trying to heed these words, as you most likely have, and fail, you must think to yourself "Man, I'm going to have to 'endure to the end' for the next 80 or so years?! I can't even make it through today!!" Yes, temporally speaking that is our conception of "forever." But, If we remember that there is indeed life after death we will realize that this time we have, here, is so insignificant it is nearly non-existant.

Think of it this way. Think of eternity as a "wheel" (please refer to my last "***Insight***" for the "Circle theory"). Now, if we tried cutting up the eternity-wheel into sections of 1000 years, we would spend an eternity trying to do so! Cutting it up into sections of 1,000,000 years or 1,000,000,000 years, OR more would also take an eternity as eternity has no end. So, with this in mind, try imagining how big a section our lives would be on the eternity-wheel. You couldn't see it. It exsists, yes, but it would be so tiny I'm sure we would call it "nonexistant."

So, It doesn't seem like Heavenly Father is asking to much of us, huh? Our lives would be instantaneous events on the eternity-wheel. "Endure to the end" should be cake then right?

Wrong, dead wrong. You know how hard this life can and will be for us. In fact, this "test" (as I will refer to it, see "***Insight***" Misdeeds, Life's Harshes lessons) is so hard that Heavenly Father says, "...If you heed my commandments and endure to the end, ye shall have eternal life". I repeat, so hard is this test that IF we make it out, and "ace"the test, we will become Gods. He knows this is the only way we can ascend and be with him.

"Welcome, my children, to the Godliness Test. I want to comend you on being so brave as to take it. You have had no time to study, and will only have anywhere from 0-107 years to complete it. However, if you listen to me and do what I say, then I will give you all the answers. THERE WILL BE NO RETAKES. You may begin."