Eternity-colored Glasses

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face.

1 Corinthians 13:12

Author and evangelist Josh McDowell tells how he once wanted to purchase a new car. He had the car picked out and had settled on all the details. He knew he should pray about it first, so he began to pray. Every day, as he continued to pray, he began to sense that God was not giving him freedom to get the car. The more he prayed about it, the less important the car became until he finally prayed it right out of his life!

What happened to Josh and his new car will happen anytime we look at the things of this life through eternity-colored glasses. Imagine what the object of your concern would look like if you could transport it to heaven and set it down in the midst of the glory of eternity.

When we take our illness, our unemployment, our financial problems, our strained relationships, our fears and worries about the future—all the things that burden us in this life—and view them from God’s eternal perspective, we will see them as they truly are. And we do that through worshipful prayer.

Take the things that concern you most into the presence of God. Through worship, you’ll see them in a whole new light.