Help us look for the eternal.

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 

2Co 4:16  For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 

2Co 4:17  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 

2Co 4:18  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 

Eternal things.

Looking at things which are NOT seen.

Joh_17:20  Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

We do not SEE our Savior.

We must believe through the WORD given to the Bible writers by the Holy Spirit.

Eternal things.

It's so hard to focus on eternal things living in a material world. However, even those who live in places stripped of most material comforts we place high value upon, can concentrate on things seen and not things unseen.

How do we concentrate on what we can't see? Seriously. It's so much easier to focus on things we can see, touch, experience. Yet, we have to look for things NOT seen. We have to LOOK for the ETERNAL.

Please Lord, help us look for the eternal!