Training Camp

When we are in a sunny, hot climate we complain it's 'too hot', when we are in a cold place, we grumble it's too cold. We search daily for that perfect place, that amazing weather, friendly people with low crime and we want to live there. We are really saying we want "heaven" on earth! 

We have to train our minds  now for heaven. This is the training camp, here on earth to be grateful each day for whatever we have, weather, health, people in our lives and more. 

Sometimes we get our thinking off the eternal view and it can be confusing, but the word of God has so much to say on this. 

In Philippians 4 it says, "I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have leaned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 

I can do all this through him who gives me strength." And in 1 Timothy 4:8, "
For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come." We are training for the eternal through the hardships in our lives the trials we go through, we will win the prize for running your race with endurance?