LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOW OF ETERNITY

Looking at life through the window of eternity puts a new and different perspective on things.  It’s like finding the field in golf, looking only at the flag at the hole.  All else vanishes from sight; the crowds, the referees, the sand traps, the distance.  One thing matters; hitting the ball to the hole.

“When the days drew near for him to be taken up,

he set his face to go to Jerusalem” (Luke 9:51).

Jesus walked this earth with purpose; to teach, preach, and prepare people to usher in the kingdom of God, the eternal purpose of God for all of his creation for all eternity.  He endured the cross and despised the shame, the hostility, to show us a different way, THE WAY life was created to be.  He calls us still to return from whence we have fallen, back to the original intention of God, when he created man and woman in his own image, breathed life into his nostrils the breath of life, and then declared that everything that he had made was good, very good.

God breathed the Spirit of life into our beings and he is constantly calling us to live in that life, that authentic life that reveals his image.  We are called to look to Jesus and fix our eyes, our hearts, and our minds on him, the founder and perfector of our faith who is seated at the right hand of the throne of God in the everlasting city in the kingdom of God that is to come.

When this vision of eternity fills our minds, hearts, and souls we will look differently and with a new perspective on this life.

“Turn your eyes upon Jesus; look full in his wonderful face.

And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,

In the light of his glory and grace.”