If you’re going to stay sane, thankful, motivated, and hopeful, you must live with your final destination in view. Only here will you be protected by the right values, balanced by proper expectations, and motivated by sturdy hope. Consider seven effects that functional eternity amnesia can have on your everyday life:…

Life is a struggle. The Lord, in His wisdom, has left us in a fallen world. But perhaps our struggles are not primarily about the brokenness that surrounds us. Could it be there is something we bring to each of these struggles that makes them harder to bear?

There is something often overlooked that has the power to alter the way you experience your life in this fallen world. If you’re going to stay sane, thankful, motivated, and hopeful, you must live with your final destination in view. Only here will you be protected by the right values, balanced by proper expectations, and motivated by sturdy hope. Consider seven effects that functional eternity amnesia can have on your everyday life:

1. LIVING WITH UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

Why are our expectations unrealistic? Because we often suffer from an eternity amnesia that causes us to ask this present world to be what it simply will never be. We want our “here-and-now” lives to behave as if it’s our final destination, when actually what we’re experiencing is preparation for the destination to come.

2. FOCUSING TOO MUCH ON SELF

Human beings were created to live big-picture, long-view lives. We were created to live with something bigger motivating us than this moment’s comforts, pleasures, and successes. Eternity confronts you with the fact that you’re not in charge, that you don’t live at the center of your life, and that what you’ve been called to moves by the will and purpose of the great eternal Lord. You see, eternity always confronts us with realities that transcend our momentary struggles, dreams, wants, feelings, and needs.
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