‘The lack of an eternal perspective sets us up not only for discouragement but also for sin. We tell ourselves, If I don’t experience an intimate relationship now, I never will. Or If I don’t have the means to go there, I never will. Then we feel desperate, tempted to take shortcuts to get what we want (what we think we want). We’re tempted toward fornication, dishonesty, or theft. Or we live in regret, greed and envy. But if we understand that we’ll actually live in a new heavens and New Earth, a new universe full of new opportunities, then we can forgo certain pleasures and experiences now, knowing we can enjoy them later.’
Randy Alcorn, Heaven, p.436.
