Eternal Perspective

This week I have found myself immersed in having an eternal perspective in my life. I have talked about it before. I have thought about it before. I have listened to sermons about it. But this week God is teaching me what it means for my life.

Right now my kids are home from school. Madie is sick. Jack is sympathy sick (or sick of school as he would say). Megan just finished finals so she is home too. Our house is warm and cozy. We are about to make gingerbread houses out of graham crackers, homemade frosting, and some candy. My bible is sitting on the table next to me and life is happening. The kids leave for the weekend in 4 hours and 15 minutes. I have my home group tonight and I need to make roasted vegetables for our celebration dinner (I had to guarantee that there would be at least one healthy item there!).

But in the midst of all of the life things going on today, my mind keeps going back to who God wants me to be in His Kingdom. Today as I am at home with my kids, having an eternal perspective looks like this: spending time discussing how grateful we are for having our warm home, laughing as we make silly houses out of graham crackers, being patient and asking for forgiveness when I am not, not worrying about tomorrow but focusing on who God wants me to be today. Today my family need to see me have faith, speak faith, live in my faith. Having an eternal perspective means I get to let go of my own expectations and priorities and allow God to guide me in what He wants me to do and be. Today I get to be humbled that I do not live in my past or worry about how much I weigh...because God doesn't look at that...He looks at my heart. Today I get to feel the Holy Spirit working in me as I continually ask God to fill me up. Today I get to die to myself and live for Jesus.

If we really look at what it means each day to live for our God and not our world, can you imagine how our perspective might change. Would we care if our house wasn't perfect when a surprise visitor came over? Or would we bless them with joy and kindness instead and never mention the unvacuumed floor? Would we talk different and smile more at strangers in the store? Would we take the time to knock on our neighbors door just to say hi and ask if they needed anything? Would we give instead of accumulate? Would we forgive quicker instead of hold a grudge?

Let's chose to walk today with an eternal perspective.

Philippians 3:8-9
"everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus as Lord. For his sake, I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage so that I could gain Christ and become one with him."

Blessings,
Teresa