“There are also several practical aspects to learning more about our eternal home. Having a better perspective on the purpose of our lives helps us to handle difficult times better. It helps us focuson what is truly important. It also helps us to enjoy this life morefully.”

“Having an eternal perspective can help when considering various choices in our lives. If we are honest, some decisions we have made in our lives would have been made differently if we had taken the time to think of them in terms of our eternal future.”

“Heaven is our true home. This earth is no more your home than was your mother’s womb. As we were never designed to stay in the womb, we were also not designed to stay in this world either. Both are temporary places of preparation for something much better.”

“We are all deeply ashamed by choices we have made and things we have done. Many of these things are worthy of the raunchiest tabloid. These things bring pain and misery into our lives. But even with that, if we love and trust God and turn from those things to God, then He will still love us and be able to use us in powerful ways.”

“The best way for us to get a good understanding of the priority we are placing on our relationship with God is to look at the choices we are making. These choices do not earn us any level of righteousness, but they do show the priority we place in our relationship with God. They show how much we want to honor Him and His desires.”

“People already have a desire for the things Heaven holds. We simply need to see that these things are not just some fancifuldream from a song but are a promised future reality.”

“Jesus was the only perfect person, so all other people God uses are sinful and flawed.”