In a civilization intoxicated by the narcotic of immediacy, where ephemerality masquerades as fulfillment, the consciousness of eternity has become a vanishing discipline. Humanity, enthralled by its own vanities, genuflects before the altar of the transient—celebrating speed over substance, spectacle over sanctity. Beneath the masquerade of progress lies an aching void: the soul’s forgotten dialogue with forever. To live with eternity in view is to rebel against the tyranny of the moment and dwell in that sacred posture where time kneels before transcendence.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” — Ecclesiastes 3:11
The modern epoch exalts velocity but annihilates depth. Its doctrines are written in the dialects of consumerism and nihilism, enthroning appetite while exiling contemplation. The digital cosmos shimmers with illusions of immortality—screens that promise presence yet produce emptiness. Living with eternity in view becomes an intellectual and spiritual insurrection. It restores the soul’s geography, reuniting ambition with virtue and intelligence with reverence.
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.” — 2 Corinthians 4:17–18
History’s most luminous spirits lived as custodians of the eternal continuum. Socrates embraced hemlock for truth’s sake. Mandela transmuted captivity into moral grandeur. Mother Teresa transformed human suffering into sanctity. They lived not as tourists of time but as architects of eternity—beings who knew that existence, stripped of transcendence, dissolves into vanity. Death, to them, was not an extinguishing of the lamp but the passing of its light into dawn.
“And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.” — 1 John 5:11
Eternity is not a distant abstraction. It breathes through moral choices, unseen kindness, and integrity’s silent endurance. Every human act echoes across the corridors of infinity. To live with eternity in view is to dethrone self-idolatry and measure success not in applause but in impact—not in possessions, but in peace. It is to perceive life as a dialogue between the visible and the invisible, between the temporary and the timeless.
“For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” — 2 Corinthians 4:18
When the theatre of existence darkens and the applause of men fades into memory, what endures is not our empires but our essence. Living with eternity in view is the soul’s highest philosophy—the audacious renunciation of superficial triumphs for immortal truth. It is walking deliberately through the corridors of time, aware that every heartbeat is both a rehearsal and a reckoning.
“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.” — 1 John 2:17
– Inah Boniface Ocholi writes from Ayah – Igalamela/Odolu LGA, Kogi state.
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