Forever: Why You Can't Live Without It
Is this all you're living for?
For years, pastor Paul Tripp understood we were "hardwired for forever." But he didn't understand that it was more than a valuable insight. It is a practical tool to help us face the disappointment of everyday life. Now he knows, and he can help you discover how to survive and thrive in the middle of your story, with the final chapter of heaven in view.
Instead of embracing the world's motto--"you only live once"--follow Tripp as he unpacks the biblical truth of the world as a broken place, longing for a second chance. And come alive as you discover the meaning and redemption all this brokenness can bring to your life today.
With practical insights on how eternity impacts your relationships, your job, your kids, and your deepest struggles, you'll be encouraged to relax into the eternal story God is writing for you. You really are hardwired for eternity, and this book reveals how you can begin to view all that happens in your life as preparation for Forever.
Top Highlights
“We get up in the morning and do the kinds of things people have done for generations. We buy and sell, plant and harvest. We relate, commit, laugh, love, and fight. We get married and we make families. We work hard, create things, and reengineer our surroundings. Some of us build cities, and others of us thank God for the suburbs. We think, we analyze, and we critique. We try to learn from our mistakes, and we attempt to educate and prepare the next generation. We spend lots of our time eating and sleeping. We hate to be lonely, and we do our best to avoid pain. We search for meaning and purpose, and all of us long for an inner sense of well-being. We have eternity amnesia, and consequently our lives are much more difficult than they need to be.” (source)
“Finally, the gift of forever means that I have been freed to approach life with joy. No, not joy because the people around me like me, or joy because my life is comfortable and predictable, or joy because my life has been free of suffering, but joy because I know that I have been given the best of gifts: the gift of eternal life. Grace has given me present provision and future hope, so I can live with joy even when the situations and relationships in my life are confusing and hard.” (source)
“Like them, I often lived as an eternity amnesiac. I, too, often lived with the unrealistic expectations and functional hopelessness that always results when you tell yourself that this life you have right here, right now, is all there is. I was confronted with the fact that in very significant ways, at street level, we don’t always live in a way consistent with what we confess to believe.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Forever: Why You Can’t Live Without It
- Author: Tripp, Paul David
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publication Date: 2011
- ISBN: 9780310598893
Paul Tripp is a gifted and sought after speaker and the author of many popular books, including What Did You Expect? Redeeming the Realities of Marriage, The Age of Opportunity, and Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands. President of Paul Tripp Ministries, he also serves as Professor of Pastoral Life and Care at Redeemer Seminary in Dallas, Texas, and as the Executive Director of the Center for Pastoral Life and Care in Fort Worth, Texas. He and his wife, Luella, have four grown children.