Mortality and Eternal Salvation: The Inconstant Mind

Imagine wanting two things which cannot be obtained together, yet working towards both. What does scripture teach?

Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

James 1:8
A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.

A person who is undirected wanders aimlessly and never gets anywhere except temporarily and by chance.

We may find ourselves overly distracted in mundane affairs. A person may have health goals, but a habitual lifestyle which is incompatible with those goals. A person may have personal and professional goals which are difficult to reconcile. A person may have productivity competing with recreation. It happens in life and managing our temporal affairs is the focus of many self-help works and courses. However, much of those aspects are merely distractions. No matter our health, we are mortal. No matter our finances, we are mortal. No matter our achievements we are mortal.

We are mortal.

This mortality puts a very firm limit on our ability to value vanity. Those who do live in the flesh die with it.

The single fundamental End is simple:

Why did God make us?
God made us to show forth His goodness and to share with us His everlasting happiness in heaven.

That is the simplicity of it. Our End is happiness and this is found in God alone. All else is passing. To be able to have everlasting happiness, we need to be immoral, which our spirits are. We also need free will, which we have. Since God desires us to be happy, the only true obstacle to salvation is our own will. Ultimately, once God has offered us salvation, it is up us to accept it.

Due to sin, we are impeded, but in the end, this will be removed from us and there will be perfection.

All we do must be ultimately aimed at this one End in some fashion otherwise we risk losing it. Due to our mortality, this may be, and will be, a constant reform in our lives as we approach the unapproachable. Removing sin from our lives may uncover lesser sins, and combating those may reveal other weaknesses. We may grow more aware of the glory of God and seek it more fully in our lives. Exactly what our individual callings are in this regard are individually given, but we can be sure that if all is done for the glory of God it is good.

This blog reflects the thoughts of a single man, myself, and the changes in my life may be reflected in this blog. The assessment of music methods as being incapable of being inherently evil was reformed by the voluntary rejection of my habit of indulging in music. My political thoughts were slightly reformed with a recognition of the authority of civil authority being from God and my previous statements were not worded carefully. With each change made with the grace of God, one moves closer to God. How can we anticipate the future? We may, in our current state, fear the future for it may call for a reform for which we are currently unprepared. This rejection of a greater grace from God is dangerous and should not be resisted.

Trust in God and live in accordance with the will of God in all things because it leads to the only thing which matters - Eternal Salvation - which is the eternal happiness for which we were created.