Weekend, October 4 & 5 Seasonal Changes: Priorities And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. John 17:3 Recommended Reading Philippians 3:7-11 We hear a lot about priorities in life and there are many. Every area of life -- family, work, personal -- has its own set of priorities. But is there one that stands above all others? It could be said that attaining eternal life is more important than any other goal in life. After all, eternal life was the gift of God in the beginning, and it is what was lost due to sin. So reestablishing that status could be seen as Priority One in life. But I have already achieved that priority, you say. After all, Jesus said that knowing the Father and the Son is eternal life. I know the Father through faith in Christ and have eternal life. Yes, knowing Christ is where eternal life begins; but by its very definition it never ends. All of our earthly, temporal life should be lived in light of the eternity we possess and the presence of God we anticipate. We should be living now the same way we will live in heaven forever. As the season changes, ask whether your life is changing as well. Is your life taking on more and more of a Christlike quality every day -- becoming less temporal, more eternal? You must therefore live, in the present, as far as possible like you will live in the future. N. T. Wright Read-Thru-the-Bible Matthew 7-11
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