We are standing
here, and we are the sum total of all the choices and decisions we have made in our lives. They have
all registered, and this, is the composition of our character. We live in our wills. We forget, when
speaking about heaven, that so many of the things which are for us in the ages yet to come, after
this life has been lived, and we as a conscious entity, a spirit released from
the body, and moving in
the new resurrection body,in a new spiritual realm, most of the things that we have on that
other shore, over there in the ages, are DETERMINED HERE. Now don’t think that
we can just live a Christian life as happy as we can, and, when we go to heaven,
everything is going to be so wonderful, l am sorry to disillusion some people.
It isn't going to be that
way! Right here and now, we are making the decisions the choices; the
surrenders; the outpourings of
life. We are doing that HERE, and THAT WILL DETERMINE what we will have over there.
That is not built up all of a sudden over there; not at all. We determine all
that right here and now. Life is too short
for us to put into manifestation much that we would choose. Even with a good choice, life is too
short for it. But I tell you one thing, life is long enough so that when Truth
is presented, and there
is an occasion for us to make a decision; or a surrender; or die a death; or accept a Truth—right
here is where we do it, but the fruitage...the real fruitage...of it, won’t always be seen here. We
aren’t here long enough... the real fruitage will be projected in the things yet
to come.