Keep Your Mind on What Is Unseen

CURRENT TEACHING SERIES Eternal Realities

Keep Your Mind on What Is Unseen By Rick Warren — Mar 17, 2015 “Things that are seen don’t last forever, but things that are not seen are eternal. That’s why we keep our minds on the things that cannot be seen.” (2 Corinthians 4:18 CEV) Everything you see around you is temporary. The building you’re in, the computer or phone you’re staring at, and even your body will one day disappear from existence. Yet it’s what you can’t see around you that’ll last forever. And it’s those realities that truly matter. The Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 4:18, “Things that are seen don’t last forever, but things that are not seen are eternal. That’s why we keep our minds on the things that cannot be seen” (CEV). Spiritual realities are more real than physical ones. We need to focus on the spiritual ones — what’s really real. I mentioned a few days ago the five specific spiritual realities all of us need to take to heart. Let’s get more specific about them. God made you to love you. (Jeremiah 31:3) God made you to love you, and he wants you to learn to love him back. This is the most important reality of life. You were made to last forever. (Ecclesiastes 3:11) One day your heart will stop beating, but that won’t be the end of your body — and it certainly won’t be the end of you. God has prepared two eternal places. Both Heaven and Hell are real, literal places. They’re not just “states of being.” You get to choose where you’ll spend eternity. You won’t accidentally find yourself in Hell one day. You’ll be there because you chose it or refused to choose Jesus and spend forever with him in Heaven. If you choose to make Jesus the boss of your life, you’ll spend eternity with him in Heaven. If you choose to reject him, you’ll spend forever in Hell. You have no middle option. You get no second chances to make your choice. Your choice has a time limit. You have your entire life to make the decision, but you never know when your time on Earth is over. You can’t change your mind after death. Nothing matters more than eternal realities. What you do with these five truths will not only alter your eternal destiny; it will also transform how you live on this side of eternity. PLAY today’s audio teaching from Pastor Rick >> Talk It Over If spiritual realities are more real than physical ones, why do we tend to focus on physical realities? When you read that “you get no second chances to make your choice” on where you’ll spend eternity, how important do you think the choice is that you make?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmbBnnudC1o How will understanding these realities change how you live on a daily basis?

Living in God’s Power

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE

“...with God all things are possible.”

(Matthew 19:26, NIV)

TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria

God promises that with Him, all things are possible! Possibility is powerful! Possibility means you aren’t limited. It means you have options. No matter how you may feel right now, you aren’t stuck and you aren’t confined to your circumstances. No, you have a door of possibility in front of you, the question is: will you walk through it? How do you walk through that door of possibility? By placing your faith in Him. By trusting that He is at work even when you can’t see it. By praying and believing and worshiping Him in the good times and bad. Today, meditate on the fact that God has the power and ability to restore broken families, He can restore lost dreams and work miracles beyond what you could ever imagine in the natural. Choose to trust, choose to believe, look for His goodness and know that with God, all things are possible!

A PRAYER FOR TODAY

Father, thank You for choosing me and using me for your glory. I rest in knowing that my life is in Your hands. I choose to trust, I choose to believe, I choose to walk in Your power knowing that all things are possible with You. In Jesus’ Name. Amen!