KNOWING HIM GIVES YOU ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

THURSDAY JUNE 10, 2021.

SUBJECT : KNOWING HIM GIVES YOU ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE!

Memory verse: "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” (John 17 vs 3.)

READ: First John 5 vs 20: 

5:20: And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

INTIMATION:

Knowing Him gives you eternal perspective, especially when you wholeheartedly understand the fact that you will spend eternity with Him! This simple yet deep revelation allows you to live every aspect of your life with an eternal mindset, giving way to your purpose. In our memory verse, Jesus tells us clearly here—by knowing God the Father Himself through His Son, Jesus Christ, you will get eternal life. It requires entering into a personal relationship with God in Jesus Christ. When we admit our sin and turn away from it, Christ’s love lives in us by the Holy Spirit.

How incredible it is to know that God weaves His purpose and tasks for us into the reality of eternity! These factors should motivate us to partner with Him in changing nations far more than anything else. No amount of money or fame can ever compare with the promise of eternity and the calling He has prepared for us to advance His eternal Kingdom.

In reality, this life is just the introduction to eternity. How we live this brief span determines our eternal state. What we accumulate on earth has no value in gaining eternal life. Even the highest social or civic honors cannot earn us entrance into heaven. When we don’t know Christ, we make decisions and choices as if there were no afterlife. Everyone should evaluate his or her life from eternal perspectives because not even the gain of the whole world can compare or equal the value placed on your soul and eternity with God.

Some people are repulsed by the idea of eternal life because their lives are miserable. But eternal life is not an extension of a person’s miserable, mortal life: eternal life is God’s life embodied in Christ given to all believers now as a guarantee that they will live forever. In eternal life there is no death, sickness, enemy, evil, or sin. Receive the new life in Christ by faith and begin to evaluate all that happens in life from eternal perspective. 

Always maintain an eternal perspective! Allow this to be an anchor for how you live your life and minister to others. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you keep the reality of eternity in your heart. Life is short no matter how many years we live. Don’t be deceived into thinking that you have lots of remaining time to live for Christ, to enjoy your loved ones, or to do what you know you should. Live for God today and everyday! Then, no matter when your life ends, you will have fulfilled God’s plan for you.

Jesus said, “He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it” (Matthew 10 vs 39). This verse is a positive and negative statement of the same truth: Clinging to this life may cause us to forfeit the best from Christ in this world and in the next. The more we love this life’s rewards (leisure, power, popularity, financial security), the more we will discover how empty they really are—“both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up” (Second Peter 3 vs 10). Realizing that the earth and its works will be sometime useless, we should put our confidence in what is lasting and eternal and not be bound to earth and its treasures and pursuits. 

The best way to enjoy life, therefore, is to loosen our greedy grasp on earthly rewards so that we can be free to follow Christ; spending more time striving to develop Christ-like character rather than spending time piling up possessions. In doing so, we will inherit eternal life and begin at once to experience the benefits of following Him.

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You, most precious Father, for the privilege of sonship, and spiritual wisdom and revelation of the knowledge of You, the hope of Your calling, and the riches of the glory of Your inheritance in the believers.Give me the grace, O Lord, to live for You, that I may obtain the crown of glory—eternal life with You, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!