I just finished teaching Session 6 of The Master’s Program in San Luis Obispo, California. According to over 2000 graduates of TMP, the message of Session 6 resonated highest above all else: God owns it all.
I’m amazed how this message of Jesus, clearly outlined in the Word of God for all to see, is such a shocking surprise. Or the message that God rewards those who seek Him. And that rewards are not equal in eternity. What we do here in this limited lifetime determines how we will live in eternity. Until Bob Shank pointed this out with the Holy Spirit’s help, I too was blind!
How different the world would be if those who call themselves followers of Jesus lived for eternity? Many listening to my words will have heard this message and responded to it. For some, this message turned their world upside down. They’ve begun the process of discovering and practicing living for eternity.
How about you?
Our culture says the successful prepare for a thing called “retirement.” A time when you can relax and take it easy, knowing your last years on earth will be comfortable with good food, the right health care, perhaps some travel, and no work. The American culture focus on these last years of life as prize where one can live the “good life.” How tragic it is that too many in the Body of Christ have also come to believe this deception.
Most see their careers as a significant portion of their identity and purpose. From that vantage point, retirement is often the act of divorcing oneself from purpose. Studies show that living without purpose is the road to an accelerated death. It’s like the body gives up it’s fight against disease and prepares for its inevitable fate.
Death – an experience so frightening to society that it is commonly ignored. And yet to the Christian, death is a doorway to an audience with King of Glory and eternal dwelling in His presence. A point of celebration for a life well lived. A time for when we long to hear Jesus’ words, “Well done, my good and faithful servant!”
Are you ready for this moment?
A book we suggested in Session 6 is the Law of Rewards – Giving what you can’t keep to gain what you can’t lose, by Randy Alcorn. In this small, but powerful book, Alcorn gives us 8 principles by which to live. Want to transform your mindset to live for eternity? Use Alcorn’s book to discover God’s words about eternity, make eternal commitments, and create action steps that will create radical blessing in your life and for the lives of many others.
The Master’s Program is not a one and done. TMP is a strategy for living. It is a framework for continuously refining what God is birthing in us and through us. This LifeStyle strategy is squarely focused on the prize of eternity. We do not live for the final 10 to 20 years of this earthy life. We live for the hope of glory in the millions of years to come.
As the Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians:
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Everyone who competes in the games, exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified. (1 Corinthians 9:24-27).
Your race is not over. More than ever, it’s time to live for eternity. May you continue to run the race and fight the good fight. May you live this day with anticipation of the Last Day – making your body a slave to live the work Jesus has given only you to complete.
At Priority Living, we are committed to helping you do just that.
We are in your corner,
Rob Dayton
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