All of your perspectives about life and life's meaning,
take on a completely new dimension
when you come to faith in eternity.
That God is eternal.
And He has promised us; it's written in God's Word,
He has promised us eternal life.
And of course, that has to do with one's faith.
But when you believe in eternal life,
you believe that you can win eternal life.
You believe that there is eternal glory to be won.
Then you will alter your life accordingly to your faith.
The reality of eternal life in my own life, personally,
of course has transformed my life completely.
From the earliest conception of when faith came into my heart,
that God has promised me eternal life,
that development began
and has continued throughout my whole life.
So from my early youth time until now into my older years,
I have lived actually for nothing else
except for eternity.
My life here on earth has been a life of faith.
I have placed my life into God's hands from my youth time,
which has freed me tremendously from anxiety, for example.
I haven't been anxious for the future.
I haven't been anxious for money.
I haven't been anxious for a career.
I haven't been anxious for how I am going to pay my bills,
or take care of my family or all such things.
The reality of eternal life,
the reality that I belong to God,
that I've given my life over to Him,
and [what] He has undertaken for me in life,
has made it for me so I have lived an incredibly restful, peaceful life.
I haven't always had joy that nothing could shake,
but I have come to a joy that nothing has been able to shake.
I live an incredibly happy life.
I don't have any unhappy days.
I haven't for as long as I can remember!
Every day I've been happy.
Happy means not jumping around and giggling in that way; maybe a few of those days, but
a deep satisfaction within me.
So satisfied. So satisfied.
With everything, with everyone. Of course I am tempted.
Earlier on, of course, tempted much more than I am today.
When things go against you, so to speak,
when things don't go the way you expected them to go,
then of course you're tempted to anxiety,
or you can be tempted to complain,
tempted to murmur about things.
But the gospel is much, much stronger than those temptations.
That faith that everything is in God's hands.
Everything is being guided in a perfect way.
As it's written for example in Romans 8:28,
that absolutely everything is working together for my very best.
Nobody can be dissatisfied with the very best.
It's simply not possible.
You're dissatisfied because you don't really believe that it's the very best.
But when you come to faith for it,
that it's absolutely the very best –
every individual that comes across your way,
absolutely the very best.
Planned perfectly.
All situations. Your health or lack thereof.
Your car breaks down or it runs fine.
People are nice to you or they're not nice to you.
Money comes in or it doesn't come in.
Whatever the circumstances, when you come to faith
that absolutely everything is the very best,
then you cannot but be satisfied.
But yet, we have to come to faith for it.
That's the point.
And by God's tremendous grace I have come to faith for it.
And I've lived that reality for many years.
So, the benefits of eternity? I would love to recommend it to every person.
I hope some will see this interview some day
and be able to listen to my testimony and
in some way be affected by it because I would so love to be able to
impart faith into every single heart for the benefits of living a Christian life.
They're overwhelming. Absolutely overwhelming.
To live this life that Jesus first of all lived
and has given us faith to live in the same way –
there is no other life close to it!
There is no other life that anybody would choose if they could just come to faith in this life
because it's the life which God intended for us from the beginning.
And God is the God of all happiness.
He is a blessed God.
There is nothing outside of God which isn't blessed.
His whole entire being is filled with blessedness.
He has no other longing than to be able to bless
all those who will put their confidence and trust in Him.
And when you do, then you experience that blessing just flows and flows and flows,
into your life, and then little by little it can also flow out from your life.
So the benefits of being a Christian,
they're unspeakably great.
Unspeakably great.
And I could wish with all my heart that every person had it the way I have it.