How Different!

If all we were to be was humble before our God. And if all we were to do was to remain there, dependent on Him for our every next breath, desparate for Him to hear and save and accept us, hungry for Him to provide for and protect and assure us. If that were all that was needed from us.

How different our sight would be.

For we would “look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen…” (2 Corinthians 4:18a). Oh, we would! And oh, how different our life would be!

How different! “…For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18b).

So if all we were to see was the eternal. If all we were to be was His for all of eternity. If all we were to do were the eternal things. If all that ever mattered was the eternal, unseen things. And if all we ever knew was eternity.

Oh, how different our life would be!

Because a life focused on eternity is a life focused on Christ. And focusing on Christ is choosing to see God and to know God. For in seeking God, you will find Him (Jeremiah 29:13). And in finding God, you will know God and Christ Jesus whom He sent. That is eternal life (John 17:3)!

It is! It is! It is!

And instead of being disturbed and bothered by the presence of sin, you have compassion for the one caught in sin. Instead of acting out in determination to achieve the right result and somehow see good come from bad, you have patience to wait on the LORD, for Him to bring about His good work in that circumstance and in that person. Instead of striving and striving and striving again to work and manipulate this temporary seen realm to get the temporary seen answers you want, you are able to stop and be still before your God, looking to Christ in the unseen realm. And He is enough!

Because eternity is your viewpoint and all that you keep in sight, for all of forever.

What a glorious difference your life is then! It’s as He intended your life to be. It’s how He intended life to be given, with eternity in view!

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“For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” - 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV