So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
The flesh we have clothed with is temporary. That’s the very reason it is prone to sicknesses, aging, sufferings, injury-all these leading it to death.
The world we are living in is also temporary. It is laden with viruses (Covid19 hello 👋), earth quakes, floods, poverty, anger, chaos, violence, dictators, cheaters, greedy, power mongering among other disasters.
The good news is that christians don’t have to participate in all of that. Yes, if you are in Christ, you don’t have to age. If anything, your strength is to be renewed day by day soaring on wings like eagles; run and not grow weary, walk and not be faint (Isaiah 40:31).
Believers are to ride on the heights of the land and feed on the produce of the field. Be nourished with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty rock (Deuteronomy 32:13). My path beneath is broadened so that my ankles do not give way (Psalm 18:36).
Christians are to look beyond seen things. That there is a life with God that is and will be eternal bliss. Where there are no sorrow, no tears and no fear. Where we will finally be clothed with the glorified body. We will never get sick again. There will be no death.
If we know the life to come is far more better than this (and every born again believer should know this), then our temporal residence should not be occupied by what is passing away. Let us focus on the inner man- 1 Peter 3:3-4, Proverbs 31:30, Proverbs 3:15-18, Psalm 34:5, Galatians 5:25, 1 Timothy 4:8, John 13:35, Psalm 119:11, Proverbs 27:19, Hebrews 12:2, Colossians 2:23, 1 Peter 4:6.
We are to toil on rescuing souls from eternal damnation. “Pursuing God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the souls of men should consume the believer” John McArthur.
Most christians live like pagans who don’t know God. Their lives are occupied by what they will eat, what they will drink, what they will wear, and where they will go sight seeing. They are busy laying up for themselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
If we ultimately realize that this life is not all there is-there is life after this world! Knowing that we will live forever with God in a place without sin and suffering, then we will spend the rest of our temporal days setting ours hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God (Colossians 3:1).
Prayer: Father, I confess that I haven’t been faithful fixing my eyes on what is unseen. Forgive me for the sin of looking at temporary things. Help me fix my eyes on what is unseen. I pray in Christ’s name. Amen!