As he nears the end of his life Anthony Hopkins has made this candid assessment about the prospect of dying: ‘We are all going to die eventually, aren’t we? And now my thing is, screw it. Who cares. Nobody really cares. We all think we do. It’s all a dream within a dream. So, I am happy with that. Now I am not scared of it. I have no fear. I am too old to be frightened. Because one day, I will learn the big secret’.

Well, two thousand years ago another old man, by the name of Simeon, discovered the big secret. He was standing in the Temple in Jerusalem and holding the infant Jesus in his arms. He praised God and said, ‘My eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel’.

So, the big secret that Hopkins is waiting to discover is no secret all but has been plainly known for thousands of years. We were created for eternity and in Jesus the door is open to fulness life in this age and perfect peace in the life to come.

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