Your Situation Is Very Temporary! Focus On The Eternal!

Take into account apart from your temporary body you also have a spirit, a form of a piece of God’s consciousness. God is eternal, so if you have a spirit that will be released from this temporary body one day, where will your eternal spirit spend eternity? All cultures have been obsessed with this destiny since the beginning. Many cultures obsessed over if they would be found holy and worthy enough to abide eternally with God. This worry can be over once you accept Jesus, who is eternal and proved it by his resurrection! John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. Jesus is an eternal circumstance changer! Before Jesus you paid with a second death for disobeying God’s laws, but now you are forgiven so you start over having a clean slate. We must concern ourselves much more over the eternal things than over our temporary situations. The soul’s eternal situation matters more than the body’s temporary one!

6. And I am sorry to have to warn you but the connection you may currently have with God may not remain so strong unless you work at it. In any relationship it is up to you to cultivate it and keep it going. Your closeness to God depends on you and your spiritual life development, whether you are praying and getting filled with His word reading it daily and obeying it living life in holiness.

The 9th doctrine of the Salvation Army states “That continuance in a state of salvation depends upon continued obedient faith in Christ”. Scripture confirms with many real life stories how some people remained faithful yet others lost their connection with God. Unfaithful Israel of old was referred to as being like an unfaithful harlot in the Old Testament which exposed the sad reality of a people not remaining in God. People have a choice daily to keep their love for God and Jesus going or not. Whatever choices you make determines your eternal future! Revelation 2:10 (b)… be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;” We choose to continue on with our faith growth in God’s Word or not. Also, it is clear that we must time and again depend on the Holy Spirit to renew us. Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;” It is up to you and I to get renewed and washed clean from our sins frequently! We need exposure to the eternal things of God to gain the power to move past our temporary contaminated human condition!

7. And on the bright side, let me give you an example of how an unpleasant temporary situation can be made into a good one. General Catherine Booth, the wife of the founder of the Salvation Army, when she was around 12 years old in the mid-1800s was bedridden and sick for about a year. What did she do? She read the Bible several times over, and later over again and again to add up to more than a dozen times. She applied her temporary situation as a time to prepare herself, and the Word of God formed her into a powerful spiritual leader! Like it or not we must accept the fact that God wants to use everything we go through, and all that we have been through, for His good purpose in the here and now.