…since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints; because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel… Col 1:4-5 NASB
What in my life is motivated by eternal hope? I have the same hope the Colossians did. The same future. The same promises. The same powerful Presence. So, what does that produce?
The temporal dailyy life is a part of the eternal. Of that I have no doubt. Otherwise, every morsel of significance would be stripped from the daily striving we call life. But, I so often live as if the temporal is ultimate.
The hope Paul is referring to here is what makes the temporal a part of the big picture – the eternal picture. How am I living that out?
I won’t always see the bigger picture. I won’t always know how folding laundry today (which is, unfortunately, essential) fits into the grand scheme of eternity. But, even if I can’t see quite how folding laundry affects eternity, I can still fold laundry with the intention of showing the love that God’s hope plants within me.
That’s my challenge as I go through this day, this week, and this life – to take each mundane thing and have the mind of eternity in it, that others may see this hope in me.
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