End in mind

I was looking through some used books in a store when one of them caught my eye. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I eagerly read the table of content to see what they were. And one of them "stuck". Habit #2. I haven't read the book and don't know anything about the author, but the statement made me think of God.

Begin with the end in mind.

I know that's how God does it. That's how He looks at things. That's how He looks at me.

Coincidedly, Sunday's video mentions that too. "God sees the end from the beginning." And how I need to do the same.

I don't usually look at myself, others, circumstances etc. that way. You could say that I am "shortsighted" in that way, but by the grace of God I am getting better. I am learning and asking God to help me to see myself the way He sees me. I am asking Him to help me see others for what they are in Jesus. And to see my circumstances for why He allowed them.

And what if I lived with the end, the eternity in mind as the day of the Lord's coming is approaching?

Lord, You are the End. May we have You in mind. Thank You for the springs of water of life without payment. Lord, thank You for seeing us with the end in mind, through the finished work of Jesus and for sustaining us to the end, guiltless.

"It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega,

the beginning and the end.

To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water

of life without payment."

~Revelation 21:6

 

"As you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

who will sustain you to the end,

guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God is faithful, by whom you were called

into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord."

~1 Corinthians 1:7b-9

Keep CZECHING IN!