Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on earth. – Genesis 1:26
Set your mind on things above, not on the things that are on earth. – Colossians 3:2
We also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body. – 2 Corinthians 5:9-10
At the completion of my first year at The Urban Alternative, my team gave me a Christmas present that remains one of the dearest presents I’ve ever received. It’s a crystal soccer ball. Being that it is crystal and heavy, it’s fun to hold. I like to roll it around in my hand and toss it in the air a bit when I’m thinking, though I do so very carefully because, again, it is crystal. Often others that I meet with also pick the ball up off of my desk and roll it around in their hands.
If the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven. – 2 Corinthians 5:1-2