Things Unseen
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 5 November 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
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 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.
Our Scripture for today comes from 2 Corinthians 4:18, and today's worship is Look to the Son by Hillsong Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | As we begin to wrap up our week, I'm living for heaven. Today we're going to explore |
| 0:09.1 | what it means to have our perspectives shift toward the things of God rather than the |
| 0:13.9 | things of earth. We're so easily bogged down by the weight of the world. And today, God |
| 0:19.6 | wants to lift our chin and pour our eyes upward to things unseen, the things of heaven. |
| 0:25.9 | Welcome to the 1st of team podcast. |
| 0:41.8 | Our verse or today comes from 2 Corinthians 4 verse 18. Scripture says, we look not to |
| 0:48.3 | the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen |
| 0:53.4 | are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. We've been trained through |
| 1:01.9 | the prideful perspective of many that we're only to look to and believe that which we can |
| 1:06.8 | see and physically experience here on earth. We're told that there couldn't possibly |
| 1:12.8 | be more to life than what we've seen because the unseen can't be experienced in the physical. |
| 1:20.9 | What a self-centered perspective. Why do we have to know and be able to present the experience |
| 1:26.6 | all that there is in order for it to be real? Why are we, with our limited capacities, |
| 1:33.0 | the ultimate judge and the debate of what's real and important? In Ephesians 1, 18-20, Paul |
| 1:40.6 | wrote to the church in Ephesus, praying, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that |
| 1:46.0 | you may know what is the hope to which he has called you. What are the riches of his |
| 1:50.1 | glorious inheritance in the saints and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward |
| 1:56.0 | us who believe, according to the working of his great might, that he worked in Christ when he |
| 2:02.0 | raised him from the dead and seated him at the right hand in the heavenly places. |
| 2:09.5 | Paul writes, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened. What does it mean for our hearts to have |
| 2:15.8 | eyes? And what does it mean for those eyes to be enlightened? The truth is that all of us are |
| 2:22.8 | given spiritual eyes. All of us know and experience things that can't be physically seen. |
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