There is an interesting side effect of becoming a believer, of making Jesus Christ your Lord and believing that God raised him from the dead – and that is that you are no longer of this world. You have a new citizenship, one that is heavenly. In fact the more you grow in Gods Word, the less at home you feel in this world. The Word of God shows us that based on things to come in the future those who served God made life changing decisions in the present. Men like Abraham, Moses, etc. turned away from the things of the world and lived in light of what God had promised was to come. They were persuaded of the promises, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims in this world. They looked for that better resurrection that was still future and because of that they made decisions in their current lives. For the church today, the great hope is the gathering together when the Lord Jesus Christ returns. Associated with this future event is the promise of reward based on the work done by each believer to build on the foundation of Jesus Christ. If we are persuaded of these truths as were the believers of old, perhaps we too can be motivated to make decisions in light of eternity.