All this talk about a road map and no mention of the destination. It seems that we have largely forgotten that we are redeemed not only for sin, but to a very real place. Life is most dissappointing, most depressing, most disparing when it is lived as though this world is all we have. Questions have few answers, and crises become all consuming. Christ connects us to the eternal world to come and provides for us an eternally redeemed world within.
Eternity is primary.
Heaven must become our first and ultimate point of reference. We are built for it, redeemed for it, and on our way to it. Success on the journey demands that we see and respond to the now in the light of then. Once we embrace heaven as our ultimate destination we are more likely to try to win others to join us in the journey upwards. We must begin to live as though eternity really mattered.