Living in Light of Eternity
What motivates how you live? What motivates the choices you make or do not make in your life? What are you moving away from and what are you moving toward in your life? What is your primary mover, your purpose, your driving force, your why, or your motivation for your life?
As followers of Jesus, we are called to move away from what brings about death, judgement, and loss, and we are to move toward what brings about eternal life and gives eternal purpose.
In his first letter to Timothy, the Apostle Paul wrote to his young disciple Timothy, encouraging him to live in light of eternity, saying, “But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” (1 Timothy 6:11-12, ESV).
Not all opportunity and choices are equal or have the same weight of eternal purpose or the lasting reward of eternal life. We are to flee from meaningless pursuits, empty decisions, and damaging choices that bring about death and judgement and we are to pursue that which brings about eternal life and eternal purpose.
Like Timothy, we are to flee that which brings about death and judgement and we are to “pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, and gentleness as we fight the good fight of the faith.” We are to “take hold of the eternal life to which we were called and about which we made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” (1 Timothy 6:11-12, ESV).
As Paul instructed young Timothy, may we live our lives in light of eternity as we flee the things of this world that bring about death and judgement and may we pursue that which brings about eternal life and gives eternal purpose.
A Collect for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, or the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 21): “O merciful Lord, grant to your faithful people pardon and peace, that we may be cleansed from all our sins and serve you with a quiet mind; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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