An eternal perspective is fixed on the unseen realities and truths of God’s Kingdom. It’s a view of life free from the limitations of the temporary, earthly pursuits that consume the lives of so many of us. An eternal perspective is a heart captivated by the reigning King of Kings who’s ushering His Kingdom into the earth. It’s a life lived longing for and pursuing the restoration of all things in the new heaven and the new earth.

In a day and age where our pace is driven by doing and achievement, how does one find space to discover or simply… be? Not only is rest vital for the health of our souls, it’s crucial to our identity and the sanctity of community.

Could it be that our fruitfulness, multiplying and replenishing is not found in doing, but in rest? In other words, our doing should not be mutually exclusive from sabbath—a place of rest where the divine resides and we’ve been created to abide.

We are constantly bombarded with images, songs and media which strive to shape our hearts and minds to the world’s standards. They present to us what should be perceived as beautiful, desired, pursued and successful. But God’s standards are different! And as followers of Christ, we must aim to measure up to heaven’s standards for our lives and not the world’s.

The fall of mankind not only separated our lives from God and corrupted them with sin, it also corrupted the earth and everything in it. The earth is no longer a permanent place. We live between two eternal destinations – an eternity with God in the new heaven and the new earth and an eternity apart from God in the eternal torment of hell. This earth literally sits at an eternal crossroad and God calls us to seek those things which are above.

If our greatest hope in this life is something earthly, natural or temporary we haven’t embraced the greatest hope God has for us. He has prepared a place for us, a new heaven and a new earth where there will be no more sin, no more death, no more sorrow and no more pain. God will dwell with us there, we will be His people and there will be no end. When our greatest hope becomes this prepared place – the new heaven and the new earth – our lives in this temporary place is forever changed.

We were not designed for ourselves and our own glory. God designed us to interdependently bring Him glory.
As we find our uniqueness in Christ, we also find what we’ve been uniquely given as a part of a greater whole.
This Is Us reconstructs the beauty of us and we, while dismantling the heart crushing deception of me, me, me.

Before the foundation of the world, God existed completely united as one. God’s eternal purpose was to extend the union of the Godhead into the earth through Us, His image bearers. Satan has worked from the very beginning to break the unity God was extending through Us into the earth. Jesus waged war against Satan and the fallen angels with His cross, reconciling and restoring Us back to God. Today, we are fighting in a war already won — giving our lives to the reconciliation and the restoration of all things. This Is Us.

None of us are exempt from experiencing tragedies and traumas in life. And yet, because of our divine call, God has graced us with His love so that we are not imprisoned by our wounds, but empowered to live fearlessly under the influence of His Holy Spirit.

The Western world teaches us to focus almost entirely on self. Personal choice and personal happiness are celebrated, valued and exalted above nearly all else. This worldview and mindset aren’t unique to the secular world; it’s embraced and preached among the redeemed. But the shared calling on our lives will not be accomplished with a focus on self, personal choice or individual happiness – We have a shared, divine call.

Christians are called to be in this world but not of this world. Our union with Christ has made us distinct from all people, in all places. God has fashioned us in Himself and as we draw from the fullness of His powerful love — He is able to accomplish in and through us infinitely more than we could ask or think. While others draw from this world, we’ve been called to draw from Christ, the source of all life, love and power, that we might display His glorious wisdom established before the world began.