As we finish this week on living an abundant life, today we'll explore where we're

placing our priorities, hopes, fears, and affections. God doesn't want us to spend our days waiting

for heaven, but instead wants to shift our perspective to see that eternity has already begun.

Though we spend our days on earth, they matter immensely, and nothing is wasted or pointless

in the eyes of God. So how would you have us spend our days? Let's find out together today.

Welcome to the first of Teen podcast.

Our verse for today comes from Ecclesiastes 311.

Scripture says, He has made everything beautiful in its time.

Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

You and I are living in eternity right now.

Eternal life doesn't start when we take our last breath here.

You and I are currently experiencing eternal life in relationship with our father.

C.S. Lewis said, in the weight of glory, there are no ordinary people.

You have never talked to a mere mortal.

Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations, these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a nat.

Ecclesiastes 311 says it this way.

He has made everything beautiful in its time.

Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

What does it mean for you and me to live in eternity right now?

What would it look like for us to have a perspective that looks past the fleeting and temporal nature of this world, to the

never-ending line of eternity to which we truly belong. Having an eternal perspective causes me to live

drastically different. My heart burns to live out of obedience to passages like Matthew 6, 19 through 21, where Jesus

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