Eternity Right Now
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 8 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
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 he have us spend our days?
Our Scripture for today comes from Ecclesiastes 3:11. Today's worship is Taste of Eternity by Bellarive.
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Thanks so much for listening to today’s podcast, the last in our week-long look at living an abundant life.
And make sure to come back tomorrow, where we’ll start our series on exploring seven different avenues down which we can venture to seek God and experience his presence every day. I know that tomorrow will take us all deeper in our experience and relationship with our good, and loving Father.
Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.
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| 0:00.0 | As we finish this week on living an abundant life, today we'll explore where we're |
| 0:09.2 | placing our priorities, hopes, fears, and affections. God doesn't want us to spend our days |
| 0:15.2 | waiting for heaven, but instead wants us to shift our perspective to see that eternity |
| 0:20.4 | has already begun. |
| 0:22.3 | Though we spend our days on Earth, they matter immensely, |
| 0:25.7 | and nothing is wasted or pointless in the eyes of God. |
| 0:29.1 | So how would he have us spend our days? |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to the First 15 Podcast. |
| 0:42.1 | You and I are living in eternity right now. |
| 0:45.8 | Eternal life doesn't start when we take our last breath here. |
| 0:51.0 | You and I are currently experiencing the eternal life in relationship with our father. |
| 0:55.9 | C.S. Lewis said, in the weight of glory, there are no ordinary people. |
| 1:03.3 | You've never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations, these are mortal, |
| 1:13.6 | and their life is to ours as the life of a nat. Ecclesiastes 3.11 says it this way. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity in a man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done |
| 1:19.6 | from the beginning to the end. What does it mean for you and me to live in eternity right now? |
| 1:26.6 | What would it look like for us to have a perspective |
| 1:29.2 | that looks past the fleeting and temporal nature of this world to the never-ending line of eternity |
| 1:35.4 | to which we truly belong? Having an eternal perspective causes me to live drastically differently. |
| 1:42.6 | My heart burns to live out of obedience to passages like |
| 1:45.7 | Matthew 6, 19 through 21, where Jesus teaches, do not lay up for yourselves treasures |
| 1:51.2 | on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal, but lay |
| 1:56.0 | up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break |
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