Somethin' eternal is a comin'

“Now there are some things we all know, but we don’t tak’m out and look at’m very often. We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars…everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.

…you know as well as I do that the dead don’t stay interested in the living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they lose hold of the earth…and the ambitions they had…and the pleasures they had…and the things they suffered….

They get weaned away from earth---that’s the way I put it,--weaned away.

And they stay ere while the earth part of ‘em burns away, burns out; and all that time they slowly get indifferent to what’s goin’ on in Grover’s Corners.

They’re waitin’. They’re waitin’ for something that they feel is comin’. Something important, and great. Aren’t they waitin’ for the eternal part in them to come out clear?”

---quoted from Thornton Wilder's play: Our Town, Act III

Our devotions must lead to love

We must not stop at merely having our devotions. Our study of the Scriptures and our prayers must lead us onward to love. We must learn to love. The entire purpose for and the reason we have our devotions is to learn to love. First, we are to love Christ and then secondly we are to love one another. Loving others can only come out of our love for Christ. So our love for Christ is where we must start.


Everything we do, no matter how big or how small must be done for the love of Christ. There is no other worthy reason to do all that we do. Anything not done for the glory of Christ is done for our own glory. Do everything for the glory of God. Do everything out of your love for God.

Once we can learn that the sum of our actions is not for ourselves or others but for God, we are on the straight path to learn how to truly love Christ and others.