1 Timothy 6
18 Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. 19 In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.
God help me to see that the life that is truly life is in the coming age in the new heaven dwelling with you forever. It is a challenge when you made beautiful things in this life for us to enjoy. And yet we also look for satisfaction in this life that we will never find except in Jesus and the hope we have because of him. We look for identity and worth in so many other things.
Like Jesus himself said in John 6:
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.
God you sent Jesus your Son that we might be fully satisfied in him. For he promises us all we need. Because you God created us and know what we need. Yet Jesus knows we struggle to believe even after we have seen.
I am sorry that I continue to struggle to believe in Jesus in you God and that you satisfy everything we need.
God I pray you would teach me to believe, to do your work and to lay up treasure that lasts. I want to build my foundation in you God. Let me take hold of the life that is truly life in you!
Amen
Amen. I definitely need to pray that prayer for myself too. Thanks so much for writing this Daniel, and for continuing to seek after God, and for remembering what is true about our eternal future with Him!
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