God's message through Bob (CCSA)

Extend your arm, and point at a corner of a wall. Now draw a long line, and then once you have drawn a line to the other corner of the same wall, keep extending it with your mind. Just go through the wall, extending it down the street, till you’re disappearing out of the atmosphere, past the moon, past the solar system. That line is going. You should have the line being drawn way out there, beyond reaches. The line is still going; and it is still going! Now that, is a long line you have drawn. You’d have to agree. Now extend you arm one more time, full length, and turn your finger up flat, close one eye and cover up as much of that line as you can with your fingernail. Right at the start of that line (that long line that you drew is your life) this amount that you cover with your fingernail that is your life on earth. Is that accurate? Is it true? I believe it is! Your life is long, and it’s not going to end. That is true for everybody whether or not they enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Life on earth, even by our own logic, compared to this is so short. Scripture over and over refers to as grass, as a breath. And yet life demands our attention. And therefore its traps work better. If you allowed your whole focus to be on this, I mean what does the Lord call that? Foolish. The parable of the rich farmer, Jesus didn’t say he was corrupt or evil. But in the parable, in this telling: for those who may not remember it, this guy brought in an incredible crap. He says I have so much crap that I can’t even store it. I’m going to tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and I’m going to lay it up for a lot of years and I’m going to sit back and say: eat, drink, and be merry. I’ve got it made. And it says, God says to him: you fool! That’s strong words. But He didn’t call him a fool because he was corrupt; he called him a fool because his whole focus is on this. What I want to say to you is, if somehow your contentment (see in human condition, we lead to discontentment, we lean toward it hard actually) and if you allow your contentment to be bound up, really, with anything in this small place, in this short line, then you’re not going to taste the kind of contentment that Paul is talking about. You’re missing an opportunity; I believe to lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, to live on the long line. 2 Corinthians 5, “Now we know that this Earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God an eternal house in heaven not built by human hands.” What did it refer to our body as? The tent, what’s a tent? It’s temporary, it’s flimsy. Hey listen, our bodies are great blessings, a healthy body is a beautiful blessing from the Lord. But your body is not who you are, it never is who you are. You don’t have a soul remember? Peter lord first said this to us: You are a soul, you have a body. Who you are, is still going to be who you are out here 8,000 years 8 million years, and on and on and on, that’s who you are. I would say you’re going to have your own name and that the Lord is investing in you and not just in this. Is He aware what’s going on here on earth, sure you bet. Is it His highest goal for you, no way. We know that in all things, in all things, God works for the good those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. For those God who knew, He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His son. Now where’s that conforming going on? It’s in the you that’s really you, it’s in this part of you. It’s in that expression of Godliness, and the choosing of contentment when things on a short line are horrible. That is a laying up of treasure for you. I’m telling you and it is a conforming of who you are, the “real” you. It is a conforming to that of the likeness His son. This is God’s purpose for us.