Is there a wilderness in your journey? Be patient – there’s an end to it. Be aware, as well, to the oasis, for that too has an end. Like the rolling in and out of ocean waves, there is an ebb and flow to life on earth. There is purpose for each one’s journey, but the destination is the ultimate goal where time as we know it ceases.
Category: analogy
Treasures on Earth vs. Treasures in Heaven
To your delight you learn that the spot where the coin lay helpless in its tomb was an international currency exchange back in the early 1950’s. Tragically the entire small town was destroyed in a fire. Several coins were lost as the people escaped the flames leaving the coins to their doom.
Leap of Death
You raise your eyebrows in apprehension as a man with a parachute strapped to his back takes a running leap. He pulls the ripcord and his canopy opens displaying its many colorful stripes. On each stripe you notice the name of a good work the man apparently had accomplished in his lifetime.