As we begin to wrap up our week on Living for Heaven, today we're going to explore what it means to have our perspectives shift toward the things of God rather than the things of earth.

We're 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 of team 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 seen are transient, but the things that are unseen

are eternal.

We've been trained through the prideful perspective of many, that we're 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 that there is in order for it to be real.

Why are we, with our limiting capacities, the ultimate judge in the debate of what's real

and important?

In Ephesians 1, 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,

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