Looking Ahead

2 Corinthians 4:18
So we don't look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever. (NLT)

How difficult it is to not see the elephant in the room! When problems are in our life it is hard to look past them. And so we get so entangled in them we have time for nothing else. We constantly think about the issues and how we can solve them.

It is not just the troubles that take our gaze away. What about that new flat screen television? When you first installed it, I bet you had to sit in front of it every evening to enjoy it. Everyone was so big and the picture so sharp you just had to enjoy every minute you could.

Next you upgraded to a Blue Ray DVD player and surround sound. WOW! Bring on the new movies. It is almost like being in the movie theater. Once again we fix our gaze on what we can see.

Now that we have the new large screen set, we can get a WII with tennis, golf, exercise programs, car racing and lots of other cool stuff. We do not have to leave the living room to see movies or play golf or be in a super fast car race. We are wrapped up in what we can see and touch.

Our troubles are temporary and are things are just that. When we pass over to the other side we leave all our troubles and all our things. They are temporal, but the things we cannot see will last forever. We need to start looking ahead and fix our gaze on what we cannot see.