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It is beautiful how God has done everything at the right time. He has put a sense of eternity in people’s minds. Yet, mortals still can’t grasp what God is doing from the beginning to the end {of time}. ECCLESIASTES 3:11


GOD DESIGNED YOU, IN HIS IMAGE, TO LIVE FOR ETERNITY.

We know that if the life we live here on earth is ever taken down like a tent, we still have a building from God. It is an eternal house in heaven that isn’t made by human hands. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:1

WHEN YOU FULLY COMPREHEND THAT THERE ID MORE TO LIFE THAN JUST HERE AND NOW, YOU WILL BEGIN TO LIVE DIFFERENTLY. YOU WILL START LIVING IN THE LIGHT OF ETERNITY.

I was circumcised on the eighth day. I’m a descendant of Israel. I’m from the tribe of Benjamin. I’m a pure-blooded Hebrew. When it comes to living up to standards, I was a Pharisee.
When it comes to being enthusiastic, I was a persecutor of the church. When it comes to winning God’s approval by keeping Jewish laws, I was perfect.
These things that I once considered valuable, I now consider worthless for Christ.

It’s far more than that! I consider everything else worthless because I’m much better off knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. It’s because of him that I think of everything as worthless. I threw it all away in order to gain Christ. PHILIPPIANS 3:5-8

We don’t have a permanent city here on earth, but we are looking for the city that we will have in the future. HEBREWS 13:14

The world and its evil desires are passing away. But the person who does what God wants lives forever. 1 JOHN 2:17

The Lord’s plan stands firm forever. His thoughts stand firm in every generation. PSALMS 33:11

So we are always confident. We know that as long as we are living in these bodies, we are living away from the Lord. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:6

WHAT IS IT GOING TO BE LIKE IN ETERNITY WITH GOD? FRANKLY, THE CAPACITY OF OUR BRAINS CANNOT HANDLE THE WONDER AND GREATNESS OF HEAVEN.

But as Scripture says: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him.” 1 CORINTHIANS 2:9

“Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, my Father has blessed you! Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. MATTHEW 25:34

Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the Father except through me. JOHN 14:6

EVERYONE’S LIFE IS DRIVEN BY SOMETHING; MANY ARE DRIVEN BY THINGS LIKE GUILT, RESENTMENT, ANGER, FEAR, MATERIALISM, AND THE NEED FOR APPROVAL.

Certainly, anger kills a stubborn fool, and jealousy murders a gullible person. JOB 5:2

Then I saw that all hard work and skillful effort come from rivalry. Even this is pointless. {It’s like} trying to catch the wind. ECCLESIASTES 4:4

One person pretends to be rich but has nothing. Another pretends to be poor but has great wealth. PROVERBS 13:7

THERE ARE OTHER FORCES THAT CAN DRIVE YOUR LIFE BUT ALL LEAD TO SAME DEAD END: UNUSED POTENTIAL, UNNECESSARY STRESS AND AN UNFULFILLED LIFE.

But I said, “I have worked hard for nothing. I have used my strength, but I didn’t accomplish anything. Yet, certainly my case is in the Lord’s hands, and my reward is with my God.” ISAIAH 49:4

My days go swifter than a weaver’s shuttle. They are spent without hope. JOB 7:6

I hate my life; I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone because my days are so brief. JOB 7:16

When you farm the ground, it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a fugitive, a wanderer on the earth.” GENESIS 4:12

THE BIBLE HAS A REMEDY.

So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord wants. EPHESIANS 5:17

Understand what I’m saying. The Lord will help you understand all these things. 2 TIMOTHY 2:7

Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the Father except through me. JOHN 14:6

THE BENEFITS OF PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIVING:

KNOWING YOUR PURPOSE GIVES YOUR LIFE MEANING, SIMPLICITY, FOCUS AND MOTIVATION. IT ALSO PREPARES YOU FOR ETERNITY.

What happiness for those whose guilt has been forgiven! What joys when sins are covered over! What relief for those who have confessed their sins and God has cleared their record. PSALM 32:1

No fear exists where his love is. Rather, perfect love gets rid of fear, because fear involves punishment. The person who lives in fear doesn’t have perfect love. 1 JOHN 4:18

I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord. They are plans for peace and not disaster, plans to give you a future filled with hope. JEREMIAH 29:11

Glory belongs to God, whose power is at work in us. By this power he can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. EPHESIANS 3:20

With perfect peace you will protect those whose minds cannot be changed, because they trust you. ISAIAH 26:3

Brothers and sisters, I can’t consider myself a winner yet. This is what I do: I don’t look back, I lengthen my stride, and I run straight toward the goal to win the prize that God’s heavenly call offers in Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 3:13-14

Whoever has a mature faith should think this way. And if you think differently, God will show you how to think. PHILIPPIANS 3:15

I am your Creator. You were in my care even before you were born. ISAIAH 44:2

The Lord will do everything for me. O Lord, your mercy endures forever. Do not let go of what your hands have made. PSALMS 138:8

My bones were not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, when I was being skillfully woven in an underground workshop. PSALMS 139:15

Your eyes saw me when I was only a fetus. Every day {of my life} was recorded in your book before one of them had taken place. PSALMS 139:16

From one man he has made every nation of humanity to live all over the earth. He has given them the seasons of the year and the boundaries within which to live. ACTS 17:26

Before the creation of the world, he chose us through Christ to be holy and perfect in his presence. EPHESIANS 1:4

God decided to give us life through the word of truth to make us his most important creatures. JAMES 1:18

The Lord created the heavens. God formed the earth and made it. He set it up. He did not create it to be empty but formed it to be inhabited. This is what the Lord says: I am the Lord, and there is no other. ISAIAH 45:18

The person who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because God is love. 1 JOHN 4:8

Listen to me, descendants of Jacob, the few people left of the nation of Israel. I’ve carried you since your birth. I’ve taken care of you from the time you were born.

Even when you’re old, I’ll take care of you. Even when your hair turns gray, I’ll support you. I made you and will continue to care for you. I’ll support you and save you. ISAIAH 46:3-4

Because of the kindness that God has shown me, I ask you not to think of yourselves more highly than you should. Instead, your thoughts should lead you to use good judgment based on what God has given each of you as believers. ROMANS 12:3

For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank of angels - everything got started in Him and finds its purpose in Him. COLOSSIANS 1:16

It is God who directs the lives of His creatures; everyone’s life is in His power. JOB 12:10

Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. ROMANS 8:6

Jesus said, “Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.” MATTHEW 16:25

God’s wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of His purposes. You don’t find it lying around on the surface. It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest-what God determined as the way to bring out His best in us, long before we ever arrived on the scene. 1 Corinthians 2:7

It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had is eyes on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone. EPHESIANS 1:11