All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:15-18

It almost never the case that, when departing on a long journey, one can see the destination from the departure. Maybe if you were coming down a mountain. Otherwise, terrain and the curve of the globe get in the way. Even so, we do not give up on traveling simply because the end point is not visible. We trust it will be there by the time we arrive.

Heaven may seem like a distant, foreign place to us here on Earth, but it is our home and we ought to travel like people who are going to Heaven. We look toward the place we cannot see, and so our struggle-filled life is filled with meaning.

Ethan Kirl