2 Corinthians 4:18 - Amplified Bible - Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.

Always looking to the spiritual side of life FIRST.

Thinking about Acts 1:8 - a witness of and for Jesus

Thinking about 2 Corinthians 5:20 - being an ambassador for Christ

Thinking about John 1:12 - given power, capacity and ability to become a child of God

All of this means that your life has MEANING - AND BEACUSE YOUR LIFE HAS MEANING, THEN, EVERYTHING MATTERS! EVERYTHING YOU DO, SAY, THINK, BELIEVE - AND BECAUSE YOU MATTER, EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU MATTERS THEN YOUR IMPACT IS ETERNAL FIRST AND WORDLY AND NATURAL SECOND. WHY BECAUSE THE NATURAL WORLD IS FLEETING BUT THE INVISIBLE SPIRIT WORLD IS DEATHLESS AND EVERLASTING.

YOU MATTER, EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU MATTERS AND EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU THAT YOU ARE INVOLVED WITH HAS AN UNSEEN, ETERNAL COMPONENT TO IT.

AND THIS IS WHY THAT GOD'S TAKES TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS AND TURNS THEM INTO ENDURANCE, STEADFASTNESS AND PATIENCE. WHY, SO YOU CAN GO THE DISTANCE IN JOY WITH FULL KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

A TRUE CO-LABOURER TOGETHER WITH THE LORD.

If you have these attributes and can live out these character traits, that's an enormously powerful skillset that you have built into your life. There is no limit to how incredibly stable, and as a consequence, reliable, impactful and probably sought after by others, you would be, in the world around you

Genuine Faith, Good Works Life Key 5 - Choose to become the difference in many other people's lives. At the same time you constantly, exponentially and automatically raise the bar on your own life and that is a powerfully good thing - for everyone!

4 But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be (people) perfectly and fully developed (with no defects), lacking in nothing.

How does endurance, steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work - by you not avoiding the trials and temptations, but embracing them, managing them, investigating them and converting them from a trail or a temptation to something you have faced and conquered. I think this is why so many of the same situation comes round again and again in peoples lives - because they obviously haven't learned to deal with it last time it came round.

An interesting quote from Dr Mike Murdock - "Patience is the weapon that causes deception to reveal itself".

Genuine Faith, Good Works Life Key 6 - deliberately choose to embrace the process that involves trails and temptations - and choose the pathway and direction of becoming perfectly and fully developed (with no defects), lacking in nothing.