Part of the reason God gave us divine
revelation about the next life is to motivate us in this one. Some have said
Christians can be “so heavenly minded, they are no earthly good.” But as C.S.
Lewis rightly pointed out, Christians are no earthly good until they are
heavenly minded. Until we digest what God says about the end of this world and
the beginning of the next, we will never truly embrace Christ’s values or live
a Christ-like life. The New Testament repeatedly drives this point home, frequently
exhorting us to “set our hearts on things above” (Col.3:1-2). Jesus calls us to
punctuate our prayers with an ardent request for God’s “kingdom to come”
(Mt.6:10). Because our decisions, our discussion and our disposition need that
eternal perspective, may God empower us today to “fix our eyes not on what is
seen, but on what is unseen, for what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen
is eternal” (2Cor.4:18).
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