Highlight: Living life backwards

The Bible says we are to keep our eyes fixed on heavenly things and not on things of this earth. Anyone who has tried to maintain this eternal perspective knows it is a difficult task, but why?

“One of the primary reasons it’s so difficult to maintain an internal paradigm is that we don’t really think much about eternity or how to prepare for it. Having only a tenuous grasp on what we think eternity might be we plan for the trip, but not for the destination. How different would I lives be if we planned them with the end in mind.”

Kenneth Boa encourages each of us to live our lives backwards in order to alter our perspective eternally.

“That imagery there is of living our lives backwards, looking to the future where you want to be, what you want your life to look like, and then letting that determine the destiny determines the journey.”

“Rather than just living from day to day we have a vision. We have a calling.”

God has a purpose for us, but if we are not living with eternity in mind we can lose sight of that purpose and calling.

“The world will define us by default. That is to say do nothing and it [the world] will be more than happy to tell us what the price tags are and what things look like. But the Word will only define us by discipline.

“Now there is a problem because just do nothing and you will be sucked right back into the ethos of earthbound thinking just by nature of the fall.”

“The only way of overcoming that downward pull, that inertia, that gravity of the world is going to be taking the wings of the Spirit and taking a totally different orientation.”

This different orientation is only found when we are intentionally seeking after eternity, or as Kenneth says living backwards.


Kenneth Boa is an author, speaker and the president of Reflections Ministries. He is the author of over fifty books including Conformed to His Image, 20 Compelling Evidences That God Exists, Face to Face and Faith Has Its Reasons.

Key Scripture: Colossians 3:2

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