Looking to the eternal

God has put eternity into man’s heart. 1 We look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. We have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling. 2

We do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison. 3

And this is the promise that he made to us – eternal life, 4 eternal redemption, 5 eternal salvation, 6 eternal glory, 7 eternal comfort, 8 eternal dwellings, 9 eternal inheritance, 10 eternal joy, 11 eternal light, 12 eternal love. 13

 

1 Ecc 3.11 2 2Cor 4.18-5.2 3 2Cor 4.16-17 4 1Jn 2.25 5 Heb 9.12 6 Heb 5.9 7 2Tim 2.10 8 2Th 2.16 9 Lk 16.9 10 Heb 9.15 11 Isa 61.7 12 Isa 60.19 13 Jer 31.3