I quite enjoyed the year 2000 movie Gladiator but I especially savored one line. “What we do in life, echoes in eternity.” This line was spoken to soldiers who were expected to sacrifice their lives for a dubious cause.
That is extraordinarily true. Our actions in life do echo through to eternity and the ramifications of our actions flow back into life from eternity as well. What effects are your current actions having on both your life projections and your afterlife expectations? As the year 2012 approaches, are you sacrificing your future bliss for some transitory and hollow gain?
Maximus the General in Gladiator say to his troops: “What we do in life, echoes in eternity”. But he doesn’t add that what we think in life also echoes in eternity. Our actions often run contrary to our thoughts. I’ll offer another quote from the same gladiator movie. “Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.”
Harness the Power of Your Mind
Similar to the way sound echoes become confused when bouncing off canyon walls, the echoes of our thoughts and actions are muddled by the thoughts of others who are thinking about those actions. Is the message that you want sent to eternity being received clearly in eternity? The sure way of sending strong echoes into eternity, is to minimize the collateral interference. I’ll give you an example. You wish to sacrifice something for charity, so you give money to a cause. That seems fine on the surface but your message is then affected by what the charitable group actually does with your donation.
I’ll speak for you in eternity. Now and when the year 2012 is upon us. While my voice is often confused as an echo here in life, in eternity it is strong and clear.
