Can you imagine what it would be like to view this world through God's eyes? I sit here within these four walls and I wonder where my friends are, what they're doing, what they're thinking. On which side of the fence they're standing with regard to God. And he knows. How much of our lives do we spend looking to the next worldly event? The next meal, the next T.V. programme, the next worship event?
H.G. Wells once wrote a story about a man who was haunted by a door in a wall. Through this door, which he'd entered as a child, was a garden with all manner of wonderful things, that transcended his commonplace physical life. Yet when he entered adult life, the door only turned up whenever he was at his most busy - on the way to an exam, on the way to his first date, on the way to an important business presentation. So it became a choice between "real life" and this garden which made his everyday life seem like a dream. And I think our hope of heaven, and our life with God, is like that - every day I find myself putting God aside while I do this important thing, or that important thing. And it's so silly.
One day I'm going to die, and from then on, my whole life will be the spiritual life I have with God. None of the things I do without him will matter at all - my knowledge of science, my knowledge of computers, the number of robots I've made, the music I've written, none of these things will seem worthwhile at that time. Not that they're wrong, just that they don't belong in first place - in my most valuable time, when I'm most alert and most up for achieving stuff.
So that's the new motto: put God first.