Unseen Eternal

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. ~ 2 Corinthians 4:18

We live in a world of the here and now always trying to gain more in the least amount of time.  Often we are a people of short sightedness and have little time for the waiting game.  We want to acquire wealth, success and money so that we can live a comfortable, oftentimes, materialistic lifestyle.  Short sighted only to what we can see and touch.  The same goes for our periods of trials and difficulties.  We get short sighted and can only see how we are suffering instead of seeking and praying to God while waiting for healing and restoration.  We can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.  We don’t see how God could make anything beautiful out of our pain, or loss.  But He can and He often does.  The things of and in this world are all temporary.  Even if your pain, affliction, or earthly wealth last all the days of your life - it is still temporary compared to our eternal glory.  Your life will ebb and flow, have ups and downs, but this is not all there is and it’s not even the end.  The apostle Paul understood this principle and urged believers that if you keep an eternal perspective, you will understand that everything will come to an end - our earthly possessions, our earthly troubles and trials and even our bodies.  Everything outside of eternal and spiritual realities will come to and end.  Only the spiritual world will live on.  Eternal means forever and these eternal realities cannot be lived here on earth.  Believers will not have eternal difficulties, but they can have eternal hope.  Believers will not have eternal wealth, but they can have eternal joy.  Believers will not always have strife, one day they will have complete peace.  The world and all that is in it will perish, but believers of Jesus will live an eternity with their Maker where the world’s realities will be no more.  Put your faith, trust and hope in the fact that your trials will one day be no more.  Hope.  Hope for a better future, and know that this is not all there is to life.  The here and now will pass away. A new sunset will appear, a new trial will arise, but neither will last forever. Let us keep our eyes and hearts focused on our eternal perspective so that we can live a hope filled life here on earth. ~ Amen