Our aim

Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. – 2 Corinthians 5v9

We have a notion sometime that our lives in the here and now somehow have a different goal or purpose then the there and then. What we see and experience may differ, but our aim and our purpose are the same.

Paul points out the transitory nature of the here and now. We are dwelling in tents, travelling tents in fact. These tents are weak, frail, and subject to the weather. They flap in the wind, they tear, and sometimes they even leak.

One day however we are going to move from theses tents into God’s presence. We can’t live in both of them at the same time. If we are absent from the body we are present with the Lord. If we are absent from the Lord we are present in these bodies.

So what do we do while we cannot physically see Him with our eyes? We walk by faith, not by sight. We decide to look at Him instead of the circumstances.

With that knowledge we should have one aim whether in the here and now or the there and then – our purpose is to be well pleasing to Him. Not a word about what I deserve or want or about what will please me, but all about pleasing Him.

Why do we focus so much on us, here, and now? Maybe because we are walking by sight, and not by faith.