After eight weeks of traveling around America and seeing 35 states, we have safely arrived back home to South Texas. We have been looking forward to our homecoming, especially towards the end of the trip. It was an epic journey but there is something special about returning to familiar territory.
As Christians, we should never lose sight of where our eternal home is because that affects all of our actions and decisions while on earth. The Bible tells us that Jesus is preparing a place for us in heaven and we should all be seeking that city which is to come, the new Jerusalem (see Revelation 21 and 22). It also reminds us that our real citizenship is in heaven and we should eagerly await our Savior’s second coming. A glorious homecoming awaits us at the end of this present age!
At Living Strategically, we believe that we can make an impact for eternity during our relatively brief time on earth by using our time, energy, money, and abilities for kingdom purposes. These are all temporal assets that need to be invested for eternal dividends. In his book The Treasure Principle, author Randy Alcorn describes this mindset as living for the line rather than the dot. Life on earth is like a single dot compared to the line that extends from it and goes on forever, representing how long Christians will live in eternity. He challenges us to “live for the line” with an eternal perspective, storing up treasures in heaven that will last.
Scripture from this Episode
“He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11
“For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.” Hebrews 13:14
“In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” John 14:2-3
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.” John 3:16-17
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.” Philippians 3:20-21
