The Importance of a Forever Focus - Part 1

So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
- For we fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but things that are unseen.
What can be seen lasts only for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts forever (2 Corinthians 4:18 HCSB and GNB).
From the time you wake in the morning until you go to sleep at night, a multitude of things and people compete for your attention.

• If you have a job, pleasing management and keeping that job can be a constant concern.
  
• If you have a family, spouse and children want and deserve a good chunk of your time.
  
• If you are socially minded and volunteer either at church or in your community, what you have committed to demands your follow through.
  

These responsibilities can, at times, be overwhelming.
Not only are you accountable for your commitments; in order to accomplish them you need to take care of yourself - eat well, sleep well, exercise and give yourself some down time.
Perhaps you have done everything you can to maintain good health, but you are not well.
Perhaps you have lost your job, your marriage fell apart or your children do not want your companionship.
Perhaps, as a Christian, you believe in the promises of God and know that He will work things out in due time for HIs glory.
In the meantime, you want to know how to keep a proper perspective while you are waiting for "forever".
This life is not all there is.
Whenever this life on earth is over, those who rejected Jesus will experience an eternity without Him.
Those of us who have chosen to follow Jesus will spend forever with Him.
If you focus on Him now, your life will be so much richer than it would be otherwise.
As a child of His, He is involved in your life now and He will be involved forever.
He has promised to never - not ever - leave you or forsake you.
When your focus is on God and His forever purposes for your life, you start seeing life a little from HIs perspective.
He knows the beginning from the end.
He doesn't reveal all there is to know about your future, but He doesn't need to.
Your experience with His faithfulness in your past is enough to trust Him for whatever will come in the future.
He is not bound by time like we are so we know that what He says He will do will happen.
One of the reasons we have difficulty with a forever focus is because it is hard for us to see past the moment.
We must, of course, live in the now, but having learned from the past, we can look to the future knowing that God is in control of it all.
We don't need to wait until we have passed from the temporary to the eternal to experience a forever focus.
Jesus showed us how that forever focus helps make sense out of today.