Ken Boa Reflections Ministries

Dr. Ken Boa: Before I begin this little series, I wanted to show you and remind you what you helped me process last week because remember I showed you this trilogy or trinity of trinities. It works both, as you know, as you can see, both vertically the columns, the questions, and then the responses. But the Trinitarian centrality became the breakthrough for me and the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last, became the center of the center because He is the way to the Father. It is the Spirit of Christ that gives us access, so I can just zoom into that.

This became and has been an exercise that has now become so familiar to me that I just think of it and it is all there. That is what I would like you to do as well because it is very useful. I use it when I am asleep all the time. Anytime I am waking up, I am processing something about this. It is a very strange thing.

Then you saw last Friday, Lewis's insight caused this to come to pass. I have been using this as I go to sleep. I use this multiple times through the day, already many, many times today. All I have to do is think about it and it is there because you use it enough times and after a while, it is part of your being because of your neuroplasticity and you are just training yourself to bring that before you.

In doing so then, I use this multiple times, but then at night, the only time I use this is I am doing a reflection on the last twenty-four hours. It is to review not only this day but also what else that day, when you will be asked these kinds of questions. I would invite you and I hope anyone has had some positive experiences with this. Have you been using it?

Guest (Male): Make cards?

Dr. Ken Boa: I probably will. You know me, I cannot resist making cards. What a silly question. As if I wouldn't make cards. Look, I already have to replace these cards now. These are now obsolete. Much as I like them, I am not going to use them anymore. I am going to use that, and the back side of the card will be that. It is a pretty obvious little thing. It is a big card, that is the problem.

But that is one thing I wanted to mention. Some of you are using and I have copies here of *The Serious Business of Heaven*. I brought that, but if you are going to use it, do this way. Here you have the chapter in *Mere Christianity*, for example. This is what I am up to, I am actually doing it myself for the first time as it was intended to be. Namely, you read the *Mere Christianity* chapter, then go to my amplification or comments on it, and then you go back to the *Mere Christianity*.

I could not do it until I had written the book. Now I am doing it. So here is where I am, the practical conclusion. Then if I close that and I go here, I am going to be reading the practical conclusion. It becomes fresh. This was fresh to me as I am reading it and marking it there. By the same token, this is fresh here, this is a fresh read. It is always interesting to compare an earlier read. Why did you mark that one time and not another time? It is like in the Scriptures. It has been very rich for me and I am just inviting you to do that.

That just covers up clearing up some things. The third business item. These are business items, but they are actually spiritual items. This is a reminder to you: we should be on this page, literally on this page. There is not a reason why any of us cannot do this and being on the Handbook to Prayer, and being in the second month. This is day twenty. It is a no-brainer. What happens if you miss a week? Say it is instead you don't get back until the twenty-seventh. Fine. Forget that, you don't have to try to catch up. Go to the twenty-seventh. That way it is a three-month cycle. Don't beat yourself up when you don't use it. Otherwise, we are not using it correctly.

I am inviting you to do this because the more of us who do this, there is a certain power in men who pray together. Even though you are not, you are in a sense. There is a collectiveness about this where you are praying the same scriptures together about God, and deep calls to deep. There is a kind of a strange idea of a community that takes place. So that is my little business for the day.

Now we are going to go to our material here. Again these images are created by NotebookLM, and one of the men in this study has been kindly making them. I don't know, are you here? Would you tell us how we can get access to these? Did you set that up with Dennis?

Guest (Male): Cut me. Yeah, you guys want them. It's about thirty-two gigabytes of data.

Dr. Ken Boa: For yourself, how would you get them? There are a lot of concerns. Yeah, sometime we can make it a PDF or something. We have to find a way because it would be large. Actually, I could get it to me. I know what I could do. I have an idea because you see my PDF of this book right now includes these components. This is my PDF of the book, so it has all these things here. The book is here. I stuck a lot in here.

You can see they are all in there, embedded where I stuck them in. I have a little method where I can take the PDF and pop them in here. It might be best for me to give you this PDF from time to time. If I gave you the PDF as it currently is, you would be up to pretty far along, wouldn't you? But that is how I did it.

This is where we left off, "Faithful." Remember this is what the book says? Oh, I don't care. You know, your better idea is better, because if you send the entire thing, it would be too much. It might be overwhelming for folks to get it, but I am not sure if I would be able to send that.

Here is the way I am going to do it. It will be a big file, and I can send it to you, Dennis, as a link to Hightail. Then anyone can get the Hightail link. That is what we are going to do. So I need to be reminded by you to send this PDF. Therefore you will have the PDF with all the files because the rest aren't in there yet. I only do it each week, so I have the files you sent me and then I insert them. That is what I did last night. I will give you the PDF of this book as it is. It is going to be huge, I think. It is hard to say. But that, and I will send it to you, Dennis.

Speaking about time, we have just invested nine minutes into gegaws and guff, but every so often there are some housekeeping matters that you have to go through. I do pray and hope that you will in fact take me seriously about considering before God to honor Him in this way by praying scripture back to Him. I think you will not regret doing that. I just can't stress that too much.

Stewarding time then, we are dealing with this whole idea of the *Memento Mori*, as I like to put it because I speak about this *Memento Mori*. I know I have shown this to you before, but it doesn't hurt to remind ourselves of it because the chapter specifically alludes to this event.

My first time at the First Church of Christ in Wethersfield, Connecticut, Glenn Sunshine and some people I know who were there. I spoke, and how fascinating, they have this ancient burial ground and these interesting photographs I took of these tombstones and also of this wonderful architecture from the eighteenth century. It had what is called a sacred canopy. These old churches, you see it's hung by this cord. Imagine if that thing were to snap and you are standing underneath. You would literally be snuffed out. You would be snuffed out.

You notice you have to take stairs. You see the stairs that walk up there? Very interesting to walk up these steps in old churches like that. Sometimes you are going up twenty feet and you are level on level with the balcony and you are looking down on the people. It is a very strange experience to do that. I observed this first time I spoke there. Wow, they have these *Memento Mori*. I realized I bet most of the people don't even know why they are there because you have obviously the candle and the hourglass. That was a very common thing at that time because paintings and all kinds of things were designed to do that. Remember, you are going to die.

So given that, let me go out of here. Here is another image of it as well. So I said the next time I come here, if I come, if I'm invited, and I was, I am going to do it on Psalm 90: "Teach us to number our days that we may present to you a heart of wisdom."

So I did a dramatic thing because what I did is I actually checked my props. So this is my prop here, my candle, and it really does work. It is a real candle. I brought a little matches and put them in the little drawer, there was a little drawer up there. I had that ready to go. Then indeed, this was a real hourglass that you could pick up and turn over.

When I got up there I didn't say a word. I just got up there and immediately took a match and did something they had never done in the history of the church is to light that candle. Then I took this hourglass and reached over and turned it over, let it start. I didn't say a word about why I did that. There was some snickering in the audience and so forth, but they then went on.

When I got to Psalm 90 verse 12, "Teach us to number our days that we may present to you a heart of wisdom," I then described and explained what I meant by these things. I even used these images I took because it's kind of strange and gruesome these burial grounds here. 1744 is when he died. This is really even worse. "Here lies..." Would you really want to be in that place? I am not quite sure you would really enjoy that very much. That said, this is brutal.

These angels and strange images. This one, that is best. I just don't think it is, there is some degree of morbidity that is too far. But nevertheless, this is also a painting that I used to illustrate this. Remember we have talked about this and I use this in *The Angel in the Void* as well. This painting of "The Ambassadors" by Hans Holbein. There are a lot of stories about the central part on the earth and the heavens above and lots of bits and pieces, even with a crucifix up here and a number of symbolic components of discord and a variety of things.

But there is this odd anamorphic image at the bottom of it. I know I have shown this to you before, but it is always fun to look at it because when you take a look at that thing, it was no easy thing for him to paint it in such a way that at a certain angle when you are going down the steps specifically, and at that angle, it would look like this. Only then. Otherwise you just see it as a blob at the bottom. But it is a reminder, a perpetual reminder, "Teach us to number our days that we may present to you a heart of wisdom." It is there all along.

That became a rather dramatic way of doing it. But when I did this on the pulpit, I then was through with my sermon. I then blew out the candle and then took the hourglass and put it on its side. I just said two words and then went down. I said, "Time out."

It's a dramatic thing. All I need to do is have these little props to carry with that little kit, do them anywhere. I can do it on the road with this thing. Every journey has a destination, and this program made it very attractive. The final hour is approaching this concept. The idea of James Boswell is one of the stewarding opportunities. I remember reading many years ago *The Life of Samuel Johnson* by Boswell. It was and still is regarded as the finest biography in the English language.

As a child, the younger Boswell relished the rare attention shown to him by his father. A story is often told of James who as an adult spoke about a special day his father took him fishing, remembering what they talked about and what he learned. It was a day he never forgot, marking him for the rest of his life. However, when Judge Boswell died and his own journals and papers were being organized, someone checked his diary to see what he recorded on that day of fishing, which had meant so much to his young son. The diary entry for that day contained one line: "Gone fishing with my son. A day wasted."

Isn't that an incredible thought? Kairos versus Chronos. It is hurtful even to see it. Can you imagine the pain he would have had had he seen that? Because he didn't apparently see that. But the son's experience to cherish that memory and he said it was a wasted day doing that. What he doesn't know, the only reason why we would know the man at all is because of that wasted day.

You do not know the long-term implications of the smallest actions. They multiply in profound ways. So we have to be very careful in the way we evaluate time and the difference between the Chronos and the Kairos because those Kairos moments of God, if you miss them, cannot be returned. But you can at least learn from them.

Did you ever miss one? Sure you did. But here is the response. Don't beat yourself up of having missed one, but take it as a gentle training by the Spirit of God. Next time, let's be more aware of it. Don't miss out because now you don't know what might have been here. But you can see the implications of this are profound and you don't know some of the things that you thought were wasted times how much they meant to people.

So it's very important to keep in step with the Spirit of God and asking the Spirit because it's only the Spirit who's going to be able to help you adjudicate between Chronos and Kairos. Kairos is an opportunity that the Spirit of God makes as the invisible Master of Ceremonies, but I need to be walking in the Spirit to discern if this is an interruption or an invitation.

This invitation, which is really what they are, is to pause and to stop and to drop everything and to become fully aware of the needs at this moment, drop my agenda. Which is precisely what you see Jesus doing on the road. Kairos moments cannot be planned, they can't be measured. Many of us steamroll past them because of busyness. We have this artificial thing on our schedules where we have no margin and therefore we cannot be open to the quiet prompts of the Spirit of God when they are given to us.

The Chronos clock calendar is quantitative and relentless. Kairos opportunity is qualitative and a moment orchestrated by God as a divine appointment. So this is the concept that we can see. You can't manage Chronos time, but we're called to faithfully steward every Kairos opportunity.

The concept here is that the Master Navigator never wasted a Kairos moment, never missed one. When He focused Himself, as He did, consider the cry for help, the deeper thirst and the unseen. You see Zacchaeus on the tree and you can see an encounter with the woman at the well and over here the cry for help amidst a sick person. Why would you? Don't you realize there's all these people? But He knew someone had touched Him. The Spirit of God told Him this. Though it may seem foolish in the eyes of men, nevertheless it was a powerful moment of an exchange.

In each of these instances, whether it's a blind Bartimaeus or whatever it might be, even a leper. Remember when He went and what did He do with the leper in one of the cases? He touched him. That's an incredible thought. He reduced His world to one person because He knew that the Father had given Him enough time on this planet to accomplish His purpose for being here.

Knowing that then, He could trust the Father when He invites Him to pause because He doesn't have to be in a hurry to do the will of God. I never see Jesus in a hurry to do the will of God. Think about His use of time. Instead, He managed time loosely to enhance relationships instead of time tightly to accomplish results.

Do you see the difference? If you manage time tightly, you're looking to accomplish outcomes and results. Manage it loosely, you're enhancing relationships. You tell me at the end of the day what's going to endure. This mindset of hearing and being aware of that I think is critical.

Here is one who walked in the Spirit at all times. We're going to be reviewed at the judgment seat of Christ. Remember about the judgment seat that it is not a judgment of condemnation but rather one of reward. Nevertheless, there will be those we will suffer loss. If anyone has some of it that's burned off like wood, hay, stubble, he himself will suffer loss.

Don't take this lightly. He himself will be saved as if through fire if he has nothing left, but the point is don't be a person who just gets in because of the grace of God, but rather is also welcomed in because he's given the "well done." Not that you may enter in, but that you are given "well done." Not all will receive the "well done." Wouldn't you want to live in such a way that you were wired by God already? You were wired in His image to want to be pleasing to the Father and you're called to do that. That's why men long to hear the "Atta boy."

"I'm proud of you. I'm pleased," or better yet, remember we said pleased with you. "You're my beloved son and I am pleased with you." What an incredible blessing that few men have ever received. At the end of the day though, He realizes that God has given him and everything He did was about what the Father had called him to do.

To use this imagery here and of course the text we're looking at: "Each man's work will become manifest, for the day will disclose it. And if the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. And it's required of stewards that they be found faithful."

We know that the divine equalizer in getting rewards is faithfulness to opportunity. It's not how much time, talent, and treasure you were granted, but what did you do with that which you received? That's always the issue. A person can be one who bears thirty, sixty, ninety, but the issue is not how much time they lived in this world, how long they were in God's vineyard. Nor is it an issue of how much abilities they were granted, nor third how much wealth or resources they had.

A person in Ghana in a very lives twenty years and he's not particularly talented, it wouldn't appear. Is it possible, and you know where I'm going with this, for him to be rewarded as much as Billy Graham or even the Apostle Paul? The answer is yes. Why don't we want it? We don't desire enough. Why would you not want to be a hundred-fold person? What's holding you back? What do you have to lose?

It's really a question of the heart. What will make room for what it treasures at the end of the day? You will make room. You have to ask yourself, "What do I seek?" Gosh, these are good questions to ask. Trust the Father. "May I know you more clearly." Immediately you're elevating your thoughts to things above. Do you know what you're seeking in asking that? You're seeking nothing less than infinity and eternity.

Anything that you set your ultimate goal on that's not trans-finite and trans-temporal is beneath your dignity because You've made us for yourself, oh Lord, our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you. That's why men suffer from anemic values because they don't want enough. They'll settle for the things that are passing away because they're visible rather than the things that will endure that are unseen because it takes a risk to pursue that.

Here ends that lesson. The two mindsets, the idea of navigating by Chronos and by Kairos so that the pace, the nature, and so forth. The metric is measured by the cost that's spent, here's the value that it's created. One interruption, irretrievable loss of time; an interruption on this one is loss of opportunity. Interesting analysis. God's presence feels distant or absent, but here He is active and present in the moment.

The most important parts of your day today will not be on your calendar. I know I've told you this many times, but there it is. It means there's going to be a surprise. You're going to look back and you may not even realize what were the Kairos moments today. Look for them and you become more conscious, more aware, more eager to really navigate in terms of the Kairos opportunities of our time. We have the sheer quantity of time, but the critical moments of choice.

Remember we're going to be giving an account. So Jesus says it matters what you go for because I am asking you to pursue long-term gain. Therefore don't sell yourself cheaply for the rewards of a world that's passing away, but rather pursue the things that will endure and will not be stolen and diminished. Pursue that treasure that will last.

Remember Jesus invites us to pursue profit and as I've told you many times, He never invites us to give up something, even our own lives, without giving us something better in return. There's always a net gain. The problem is what most men call profit, God says is trash at the end of the day. You have to ask what you are treasuring.

Then we have our exercise, Tool Number Twelve out of eighteen of these tools. In a future edition of this book, I'm going to be wanting to have all the tools all fully there. "Father, teach me to live with two days on my calendar." This little prayer I want us to pray as well: today and that day. That is a prayer I would want us to pray because it makes complete sense. It's so simple. Live today, which is all you've got, in light of that day, which is going to be a question of only when. Never presume that this isn't the day.

May I be open to your promptings, not insisting on my own agenda, but following your lead in how I spend the time you have given me. May I define a productive day by your standards rather than by the world's metrics. So we give a number of things. Look for our Kairos opportunities, minimize distractions, plan the important. We have a little image that I'm going to use to summarize this: healthy rhythm of rest and work, the disciplines of prayer and so forth, learning to say no because the good's the enemy of the best.

How many times have I taken on an appointment or a speaking engagement or some kind of an event solely because I was so concerned about disappointing someone? I've now become more free from the agendas and expectations of people. I am therefore, as an interesting irony, able to serve them better than if I were pursuing their approval.

Does that make sense to you? Who you're playing to. The more you look at Jesus, the more you treasure Jesus, the less impressive everything else becomes. But here's the beauty of that. By loving Him more, you'll love them better than if you love them more than Jesus. He's not the enemy of your love, He's the animator. But as I say, He's a jealous God and He will brook no rival. When you give Him your all, then He'll give you the capacity to be more other-centered than you ever would have been if you were living on the horizontal plane.

This toolkit summary: recalibrating your schedule. These are tools and it mentions them. Seek Kairos daily, minimize distractions. I think this is a huge enemy for many people. I try to use it as a servant, so I never scroll, I never use social media on this, I never do gaming. I don't do much of anything except when I'm only time I'm on the Google or something if when I'm looking up a word or something like that.

If I use it that way then when it rings I don't answer it unless it's my wife. Nobody will trump her. Otherwise, anyone I'm with will trump this. How rude we've become and how diminished and how the lack of civility and the lack of capacity to relate has so vastly diminished people the more you use it. Use it as a servant, but don't make it a master. I find myself not looking at it as much. I surely listen to the Bible a lot on it because I have to say it gives me a kick. This is my guy doing the King James. It's fabulous. Whenever I'm driving, I'm always listening to the Bible in the change the translations and I'm always looking at the beauty of the natural world.

I just have to make sure now that I'm driving fast enough to not be an annoyance. How did that happen? I'm just the opposite of that before. So now what I'm doing is I'm luxuriating in the architecture, the dendritic architecture, the bones of trees. Every year I see them, they're more wonderful than they were the year before because my capacity has been increased and I'm shocked at stuff that before I would have taken for granted because you have to train yourself in that acuity.

I'm studying the glory of God while I'm listening to His revealed word in the scriptures. Not a bad way to spend your time. That's why I say I have to make sure I'm going the speed limit. It's changed and if I'm late, I'm late. If there's a problem, it's a Kairos or whatever. You see the idea how the pressure's off. It doesn't mean I'm irresponsible, I actually find myself now planning more time to get there earlier than I used to be before. I didn't have any margin before, now I do. So I'm less likely to be late, but even if I am, it is that I can just go with God's purpose. I hope that makes sense to you because it's being revolutionary for me. Prioritizing the input, learning to say no. A huge area, especially when younger. Knowing the good things, protecting the best things.

Always assessing, reassessing, recalibrating. The idea of a routine with time with God and all these other components that we summarize at the end of the book and which you will now have in that PDF that I'm going to be glad to send to you. You stiff-necked and rebellious people. I'm going to let you think about this idea of as you reflect together the recalibrated voyage.

Stewarding time is like planting a garden: you cannot create more soil. You're given a finite plot of land for a season. The wisdom lies not in trying to expand the garden, but in cultivating what you've been given to produce fruit that will last. The idea of a shift from managing minutes to embracing moments. I like that. So think about how can you treasure, train yourself is the question I want you to go to: the Kairos versus the Chronos. I'm going to show you one thing, in fact, this'll be a better way to go if I use because I'm adding a third word here.

Remember the Kenosis? Because when you go from calendar time is one thing, but then the opportunity time, but I add this third word and that's why I'm adding it, I want you to see this instead of the chart. Why? You cannot actually embrace opportunity time unless you die to your agenda. It's a Kenosis, an emptying. Let's begin. How is your time around your table? Anyone have any insight to be shared? Was there any Aha moment, Eureka, no nothing?

There's a lot of good things going on in a room like this when you think about the Spirit of God and the people that are involved. There's a lot of spiritual warfare also in a room like this and you realize if you could see it as it really is, it'd be an astonishing thing. But when men pray together and meet together and choose to be other-centered and learn the scriptures together and take the trouble of doing so, it's going to amplify your capacity in ways you could never be on your own. You know that you can't thrive without the community. You've got to have that.

Remember I had these four things that God uses for our spiritual growth. You recall those? I bet you don't. You remember them now? They're up there, of course: Scripture and prayer, and that's my advertisement for Handbook to Prayer. Pray scripture back to God. That's the whole idea there. We haven't forgotten you, but I just want to quickly do this little thing here, won't take long.

The third is community, and I wanted to make sure because again you can only grow so much by yourself. We can't do it alone. But then the fourth you recall is suffering. The difference between them is this: the first three are disciplines. The fourth one is those disciplines train you to respond correctly to suffering. Does that make sense to you? So the disciplines are training in righteous response, so you begin to habituate the walking in the Spirit and you begin to habituate the Kairos-driven life, you might call it. The Kairos life of opportunity, of Spirit-drivenness.

The wind bloweth where it wishes. You hear the sound of it, but you don't always know where it comes from. But if you take the sail and soar with the wings of the Spirit, this becomes that idea and that metaphor I use: riding on the thermals of the Spirit, overcoming the law of gravity. It's still there, but you're now and you're not flapping your wings, but you're riding the thermals, gliding further up and further in. It's a wonderful thought, but you have to be still, but also still moving because you have to be in the Spirit, but you have to also move and follow the Spirit because otherwise you'll get out of the eye of the storm. Now, I didn't forget that question. I threw that in there because I just felt it was an important timing.

Guest (Male): Dr. Boa, this is a little off-subject, but I have a question for you. C.S. Lewis refers to pride being spiritual cancer, and you comment on that in your companion book. It seems to me he's saying that this pride is only a problem for Christians because if you don't believe in God, you don't have a problem with pride. Could you comment on that?

Dr. Ken Boa: If you don't believe in God, you don't have a problem with pride?

Guest (Male): Yes. Otherwise, Christians, believing in God, are concerned about having a problem with pride because that is spiritual cancer.

Dr. Ken Boa: We know that pride is basically the root behind all sins. It is the autonomous self whose fallen state will always be "my will be done, not thine." It will always be so. Even believers will try to manipulate the throne of God to get our needs met, rather than asking what true prayer is. Remember what true prayer is. It is not getting God to do what you want, but training yourself to love what He wants and to obey it, even if you don't like it.

So the point is, it's a matter of growth in that. Pride then is the, as you know, as far as I can tell, the real solution to the problem is not by trying to be humble. Because any effort to be humble ironically leads to pride. You're humble and proud of it. My humility cries out for recognition. If you think you're humble, you're not.

If you remember David Copperfield, he's got this wonderfully oleaginous, insidious character called Uriah Heep. He is more full of pride than anyone: "I'm a humble man, I'm a humble man." Nonsense. So it's an insidious thing to see pride and its various forms.

The key to humility is the realization of 1 Corinthians 4:7: "What do you have that you didn't receive?" It's a rhetorical question, the answer should be nothing. So why do you boast as if you didn't receive it? Why do you take credit for your capacity to make wealth? Why do you take credit for anything about this world? Everything you have is gift and grace. Not a thing that you have that wasn't given to you. Therefore if it's gift and grace, you will be held accountable because it's not even yours.

It's a really very sobering, but actually liberating thought because only His service is your perfect freedom. You will have freedom in no other master. You will, as Bob Dylan says, you've got to serve somebody. It may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but you're going to serve somebody. Choose you this day whom you will serve, whether it be these gods or whether it will be the Lord your God. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

You must choose you this day, and a failure to choose will be that you'll be by passively subjected to the gods of this world. You can't help it. So it has to be a volitional, intentional walk that's reinforced by discipline because it will erode because we leak truth. Do you not leak spiritual truth? Is it not harder to actually gain it than to lose it? Because there's a kind of a second law of entropy of thermodynamics, things left to themselves will naturally erode, including relationships. They don't get better if they're not reinforced and enhanced.

So marriages, so many times as you know, a couple have built their lives around the kids. When they leave, they're now empty nesters. They're two strangers in the same roof because they haven't built the right relationship with each other. It's a sad thing, but it's never too late if you choose to cultivate that common ground that previously brought you together. Otherwise, I guarantee you it will erode. So it's true in every area.

Guest (Male): One of the things we were talking about was particularly as men using the Kairos/Chronos that all men get driven. All of us get the idea of what is success and there are images of success: succeeding in life, getting the perfect girl, making a lot of money, going to Cancun, building up the portfolio, or in church, academia, whatever it is. I think success and ambition, undefined, many men or people only come to this through crisis: a sickness, a death, a broken marriage, a thing walking away. The very thing you showed about the dad going fishing and finding out afterwards, or we find this about him. I think the internalization early on of "What do I mean by success before God and what is my real ambition? What's driving my heart? Power, money, pleasure, whatever." Distinguishing so that I really am living in His presence under His authority for His glory is a value difference that has to be internalized.

Dr. Ken Boa: I think that's a good word. You all hear that? It's axiology, it's the whole area of values. What do you love? What do you value? What do you esteem? If we, as I say before, most people have a vision that's so anemic that it's not worthy of pursuit. So if you treasure the eternal and long to hear the "well done," you're pursuing that for which you were meant to be. Everything comes down to the heart. What the heart longs for. What do you seek? We'll stop there and thank you.