As we begin to wrap up our week on Living for Heaven,

today we're going to explore what it means to have our perspective shift

toward the things of God rather than the things of Earth.

We are so easily bogged down by the weight of the world. And today, God wants to lift our

chin and point our eyes upward to things unseen, the things of heaven. Welcome to the

first 15 podcast. Our verse for today comes from 2 Corinthians 4 verse 18.

Scripture says,

We look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen, for the things that are

transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. We have been trained through the prideful

perspective of many, that we are only to look to and believe that which we can

see and physically experience here on earth. We're told that there couldn't possibly be

more to life than what we've seen because the unseen can't be experienced in the physical.

What a self-centered perspective.

Why do we have to know and be able to presently experience all there is in order for it to be real?

Why are we, with our limited capacities, the ultimate judge in the debate of what is real and important?

In Ephesians 1 verses 18 through 20, Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus praying,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened that you may know what is the

hope to which he has called you. What are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints?

And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might,

that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead

and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places.

Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened. What does it mean for our hearts to have eyes?

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