As we finish our week on vision and boundaries,

today we'll focus on having vision for eternity.

The glorious truth is that this world is not the end for us.

In fact, through Jesus, we'll see a kingdom that has no end.

Christ desires His people to be those that live with fresh vision for heaven

and eyes fixed upward. May you be newly envisioned and encouraged today as you're reminded of the

world that is to come through Christ our king. Welcome to the first of teen podcast.

Our verse for today comes from Ecclesiastes 3, verse 11. 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. To be a true person of vision is to live this life in light of eternity.

Without a real revelation of eternity, this life will be marked by hopelessness and a sense

of aimless wandering. Only when our destination comes into view, can we rightly see the circumstances strewn along the journey of this life.

Ecclesiastes 311 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. To look to eternity requires us to trust. Our minds are finite. In the only

world we've ever known, life is marked by a beginning and an end, by birth and death.

But in Scripture, we discover that God is the maker of life and the conqueror of death.

We discovered that in Jesus, we're promised eternal life and unhindered, unveiled communion with our Creator. To live with vision for eternity is to trust that things are not as they will be,

and to surrender the entirety of this life with hope for the next.

When we live seeking satisfaction from the things of the world,

we live as if heaven didn't exist and God didn't

usher in His kingdom through Jesus. The things of this world only have value in the

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