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I recently was taken by an ambulance and hospitalized because of a third degree burn on my foot. The burn wasn't the experience I'm talking about, though. While I was in the hospital that week, I had my spiritual reset button hit; I got my Joy back. I mean, I've known all my life that, yes, I'm blessed, and yes, God loves me, an undeserving sinner, but sometimes I get so wrapped up in life that I take it for granted and minimize its true importance. But while I was in there I had this spiritual reawakening. The enormity of it all just hit me.

There is absolutely nothing I have to offer that God needs from me, and there is absolutely nothing I could possibly do for Him that He couldn't do infinitely better. Yet, He loves me, and He has chosen for me, an insignificant sinner, to partake of His kingdom. And any pain that I suffer here on earth and think is worse than anyone ever experienced, is not ever comparable to the pain God chose to put His perfect Son through for undeserving me. He put Him through hell so I wouldn't have to. When I think of the beautiful eternity I have before me, now it just makes the rest of my daily life seem so irrelevant. What are a few, brief years of temporary stress, strife, bliss, or happiness when one is facing eternal joy? I therefore realize that the only things on this earth of any importance are only those which bring more people to God, because those are the only things that will matter in Heaven.