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Vision for Eternity · First15 Devotional

• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: As we finish our week on vision and boundaries, today we'll focus on having vision for eternity.
• 0:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: The glorious truth is that this world is not the end for us.
• 0:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, through Jesus, we will see a kingdom that has no end.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Christ desires his people to be those that live with fresh vision for heaven and eyes fixed upward.
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: May you be newly envisioned and encouraged today, as you're reminded of the world that has to come through Christ, our King.
• 0:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the first 15 podcast.
• 1:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Our Scripture for today comes from Ecclesiastes 3, verse 11, Scripture says, He has made everything beautiful in its time.
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Also, He has put eternity into man's heart yet so that He cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: To be a true person of vision is to live this life in light of eternity.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Without a real revelation of eternity, this life will be marked by hopelessness and a sense of aimless wandering.
• 1:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Only when our destination comes into view, can we rightly see the circumstances strewn along the journey of this life?
• 2:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ecclesiastes 311 says he has made everything beautiful in its time.
• 2:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Also he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: To look to eternity requires us to trust.
• 2:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Our minds are finite.
• 2:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: In the only life we've ever known, life is marked by beginning and end by birth and death.
• 2:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: But in Scripture, we discover that God is the maker of life and the conqueror of death.
• 2:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: We discover that in Jesus, we are promised eternal life in unhindered, unveiled communion with our Creator.
• 2:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: to live with vision for eternity is to trust that things are not as they will be and to surrender the entirety of this life with hope for the next.
• 3:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: When we live seeking satisfaction from the things of the world, we live as if heaven didn't exist and God didn't usher in His kingdom through Jesus.
• 3:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: The things of this world only have value in the giver of all good gifts, to our possessions, relationships, and work.
• 3:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Only have value here because they are a shadow of what is to come when all things are made new.
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Having vision for eternity should lead us to create boundaries around everything in this life.
• 3:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: It should lead us to a lifestyle of surrender that our hearts might never become tied to that which is fleeting and can never fully satisfy.
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: It should lead us to a lifestyle of fully enjoying the things God has given us.
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: All the while knowing the things of this life are merely a shadow in comparison to what is to come.
• 4:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you feel tied to the things of your life today?
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you feel as if your possessions, relationships, and work, owns you, rather than you enjoying them to the glory of God?
• 4:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you seeking to find total satisfaction in the things of the world?
• 4:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Or are you finding peace in the hope of heaven?
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: take time today in God's prayer to surrender your life again to Jesus.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Allow God to cut away any ties you have to that which is chaining your heart to this world and find abundant joy and peace in the freedom that comes from living and light of eternity.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: As we begin, meditate on what the Bible says about eternity.
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: allow scripture to fill you with vision for what's to come.
• 5:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: John 14 verses two and three says, in my father's house are many rooms.
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
• 6:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself.
• 6:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: That where I am, you may be also.
• 6:24
  [UNKNOWN]: Thank you very much.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: and next.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you living in light of eternity?
• 7:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you feel your heart tied down to any things of the world?
• 7:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: First John 215 says, Do not love the world or the things in the world.
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him.
• 7:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: In last, set boundaries around having vision for eternity, lay down anything holding
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Take time to enjoy God that the foundation of your life would be communion with Him.
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 1611 says, you make known to me the path of life.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: In your presence, there is fullness of joy at your right hand, our pleasures forevermore.
• 8:40
  [UNKNOWN]: Thank you very much.
• 9:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: in Galatians 516, Paul Wrights, but I say walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
• 9:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: When you take time to enjoy God every day and seek to live in communion with the Holy Spirit, you will faithfully guide you away from the things of the world and into fullness of joy in him.
• 9:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: May you find comfort and hope in connection with the living God today as you seek to live with vision for eternity.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much for listening to today's podcast.
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Josh Miller with First15.
• 10:10
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• 10:16
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• 10:21
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• 10:32
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• 10:41
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• 10:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Have a wonderful rest of your day and may God bless you as you see Kim.