Ecclesiastes 2

"Then I realized the people I looked down on as useless and lazy end up dying, just like me. There is no difference in our ultimate fate, and it depressed me, because despite all I had done and accomplished, in the end no one would remember me any more than the man who did nothing with his life." Ecclesiastes 2: 15 & 16 Paraphrase

There is a saying I've seen on bumper stickers and t-shirts that goes something like, "Life is difficult and then you die." Of course I am being more polite in my phrasing, but it's true. There is some joy, but lots of frustration, sorrow, and pain, and then it's over.

I think that is why the idea of an afterlife has been so persistent in believe systems for all of history. If we all just die, what is the point?

That is why I choose to believe in God, why I choose to believe in eternity, because I look around and can't help but think there has to be more.

C.S. Lewis put it best, "If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

Created for eternity.