Day Six: "Life is a Temporary Assignment"

Key Points:
Life on earth is a temporary assignment.
To make the best use of your life you must remember two truths 1. compared with eternity, life is extremely brief 2. earth is only a temporary residence. You won't be here long so don't get too attached.
Your identity is in eternity and your homeland is in heaven.
It's easy to forget the pursuit of happiness is not what life is all about.We are preparing for something even better
The fact that earth is not our ultimate home explains why as followers of Jesus we experience difficulty, sorrow, and rejection in this world.
This is not the end of the story

verse: " So we fix our eyes not on what is seen but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal. " 2 Corinthians 4:18

I did not have much time to blog yesterday the semester has officially started and with is brought an internship, a new research assignment and an unexpected snow storm. I did have time to reflect on what I read and could definitely feel as though as God was giving me a test today! I could curse the snow or embrace it and feel blessed for the warm clothes and boots I have to wear to class. Its all in how you look at it! I was blessed to have the company of a certain someone over the past twenty four hours and very much enjoyed his company. I know for certain that God has put him in my life for a reason, he has motivated me to be so much strong in relationship with God and much for faithful in my walk with Christ. He carries himself with a kind of blind faith that is unparalleled. He is so at ease that God is in control of his life. I'm still working on that. One thing I did gain from yesterdays reading was the fact that life is a trust. It makes you look at the world a lot differently when you think about everything in it as God's and not yours. Nothing is mine because it is only through God that is has been rewarded...interesting thought isn't it? In regards to life being a test, I feel as though I have failed many of the tests I have been given in the past. I spend so much for time worried about what will make others accept me and care little about what God thinks. But I also think that I have been given a second chance, a re-take if you will. I heard this song on the way home from a friends tonight and it spoke directly to me.

"Little girl twenty-one the things that you've already done Anything to get ahead
And you say you've got a man but he's got another plan Only wants what you will do instead Well little girl twenty-one you never thought that this would come You starve yourself to play the part But I can promise you there's a man whose love is true
And he'll treat you like the jewel you are There could never be a more beautiful you
Don't buy the lies disguises and hoops they make you jump through You were made to fill a purpose that only you could do So there could never be a more beautiful you
So turn around you're not too far To back away be who you are To change your path go another way It's not too late you can be saved If you feel depressed with past regrets The shameful nights hope to forget Can disappear they can all be washed away
By the one who's strong can right your wrongs Can rid your fears dry all your tears
And change the way you look at this big world He will take your dark distorted view
And with His light He will show you truth"

Makes you think doesn't it? It's not to late to change everything.
As far as todays reading goes..or yesterdays because it's already past midnight, I'm not sure I ever viewed life as temporary assignment or as a preparation for something bigger. To me eternity has kind of been viewed as what happens when this life is over..after you have lived an accomplished..kinda like retirement. But thats not it...it's the other way around. This is a warm up, whats to come is the important. The discussion question asks how I should change the way I'm living right now since life is a temporary assignment...and I think that it all boils down to the very purpose of why I'm embarking on this journey. I should stop living to do things that make me successful, famous, or happy and strive to find God's purpose in my life. I want to do something important, I want to change someones life...I want to glorify God in all I do...that being said...I've got a lot of changing to do!