Take time to reflect on the future. Reflect, anticipate, look forward, it is your greatest incentive to holiness. You will feel so indebted. And it is your greatest incentive to service. You will do anything for him. Be frequently in the habit of looking forward. Thank God often for the glory to come, then it will be real to you. Read the passages of Scripture often, such as this, which speak of the future. Read about glory. Do everything you do in the context of eternity. If you have to buy something, re-equip your home, do this, do that, but best of all witness, always think of what you are doing in the context of eternity. Then you will not indulge in excess, then you will not over-love the things of this world because always you say, what is this in the context of eternal glory. Turn away from excess. Think of a good deal if you can of those who have proceeded you, who have gone before, those who you will meet again. Family and friends, and people we have never known, the great heroes of faith and of church history and of course of Bible times. But think of those with whom you will have a glorious reunion. And think of Christ. You have never seen him. You will see him in his power and his love and glory. The one to whom you gave your life, the one whom you serve, the one whom you praise constantly. You will see him. The one to whom you owe everything. Some of the worthies in Puritan times used to say, if you do not look forward to heaven, you are not saved. But others would not go that far, and I do not think we can go that far, because the flesh has a capacity for coldness and we are so easily distracted, but we must try.