We’ll catch up in eternity.

Apparently this is a risky thing to believe. Infact, I am currently banned from saying this in a number of my friendships. So allow me start with the clause:

This statement should not be used to cancel people and or avoid working through hardships in our relationships. Relational resilience terms and conditions apply.

With that out of the way, let’s talk about death. It’s already been on our tongues. Especially if you’re a Kenyan reading this piece at the time of its release. But I am not about to eulogize Raila nor give you a study about the state of the dead, though the latter is quite tempting.

Death; quite a common phenomenon. Interestingly we are often rather ruffled when it happens, especially close to home. And that’s putting it lightly. Are we usually under some subconscious delusion that our people are immortal? What’s going on?

Instead of me waxing philosophical, how about a bible verse?

NLT Ecclesiastes 3
11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart…

It didn’t say He has planted eternity in the heart of Christians. It said the human heart. And if we won’t go for it in God we’ll go for it somewhere. Hence the ongoing transhumanism movement; this deep-seated desire to live forever but, without God. The microwaved version of the Tower of Babel. Dr. Aaron Kheriaty calls it, that’s transhumanism, Salvation by Science and Technology.

Admittedly, now and then, even as a Christian, I’ll graple with the fear of losing ‘my people’. I want us all to live forever. There are sleepovers, phone calls, discussions, walks, etc…that I want to last forever. Then it hit me: ‘we’ll catch up in eternity’. Eternity is a legitimate desire and such a thing exists. God has made provision. Lewis would say: Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. If I sound a bit cheesy I think that’s, well, a you problem. You don’t love deeply, do you?😅 ( Seriously, are you okay?😅)

Again, this does not lessen the import of living life to its fullness on this side of eternity. Quite the opposite. You see, eternity is a place you can’t be towed into. You don’t accidentally slide in. And this is where we land this plane-

In my musings about death, about catching up in eternity this is where I have landed;

That it starts with me. Am I securing my eternity? Can the people around me rest in the thought that we’ll have another chance to make up for what’s lost on this side? I’m working on that. And all that anxiety whether my people are doing the same, well, I’m channeling that energy into intercession.

KJV Philippians 2
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

KJV Philippians 1
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

So yes, that’s on death for me. But the implications are obviously so much more:- I met a new person recently and she said, Where have you been my whole life? The feeling was mutual. We have a whole lifetime to catch up on you see. And there are too many variations of this. I am at liberty to love deeply and when necessary, to let go freely. Why?

Say it with me now: We’ll catch up in eternity! And to be honest, I don’t think it’s far away.😊

How cheering is the Christian’s hope, While toiling here below! It buoys us up while passing through This wilderness of woe, It buoys us up while this passing through This wilderness of woe.