This Life Starts That Life

To see the Kingdom of God one must be born "again" (from above) in THIS life. There is not a judgment which might be favorable AFTER this life. If you do not get eternal life here, you are not going to get eternal life there. You have got to start that life, eternal life, in this life. What might make you feel better about it is that if you do not get born again from above during this life, you get restored to this sort of life again - the grave ("hell") - to waste a bit more of eternity in getting eternal life in this continued death (spiritual ignorance).

The thing is the "man in the mirror" cannot do it. A Christmas Carol and Groundhog Day are among my favorite movies, but becoming good does not get one born again. Spiritual regeneration is a grace given or infused (ta-da) from above our level of authority and power. It has to be RECEIVED from that which IMPARTS it. That would be the Field of the Ineffable's Consciousness whom we call "God." Its Consciousness is the Power working through all of this to become the Ineffable Being fully manifest. Repentance and submission in complete surrender, effacement of ego and humility is the path that must be tread psychologically to one's acceptance to receive the imbuement, an earnest of the eternal life in this life. Don't leave home without it. Well, don’t leave church without it.