Pursuing Faithfulness with Our Eyes on Heaven
Our Real Home with Christ
I think it’s important to look at Scriptures that talk about our next life. It is so easy to have tunnel vision for what we’re going through with work and kids and all of the things that fill up our days. And it’s easy to forget that this is not all there is.
And so I think it’s important to look at passages that remind us of our true citizenship, of our real home with Christ forever, and that can be a comfort.
Everyday Faithfulness
Glenna Marshall
This book explores what daily faithfulness to Christ looks like when spiritual growth seems hard to measure, working through the unique challenges to faithfulness during seasons of waiting, doubting, caretaking, suffering, and more.
Especially if you are living through seasons of suffering or difficulty, it is encouraging to know that this is not our best life now. Our best life is coming later with Christ, where we will never have sorrows or suffering or deal with sin ever again.
I think keeping those Scriptures before us is so important in helping us to make it through the ordinary, mundane days. And I love Paul’s call in Philippians 3 to forget what is behind and strain towards what is ahead, keeping our eyes on the prize. And there’s a phrase Paul uses in that passage where he says that Christ has made him his own.
We belong to Christ. I think belonging to Christ has such strong, beautiful implications for how we live this life and think about what’s coming next.
Glenna Marshall is the author of Everyday Faithfulness: The Beauty of Ordinary Perseverance in a Demanding World.
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