How at home are you down here on this planet? How invested are you down here? You can spend your days making yourself more and more at home right here. You can surround yourself with more of the trappings of this planet. While they provide temporary pleasure nothing down here lasts forever.
Everything is temporary. Relationships can end in death. Cars get old. Clothes wear out or go out of fashion. Once robust health deteriorates over time. One year's birthday present can be next year's garage sale material. We live in between the eternal and the temporal.
This world was never meant to be our home. But people work feverishly to make it so. Over and over again they end up disappointed and disillusioned.
If you set your sights on eternity in Heaven no matter how tough it gets down here a better home awaits. Heaven is only for those who repent of sin, turn to Jesus and wholly throw themselves on the grace and mercy Jesus offers through His death and resurrection.
We are bound to encounter some trouble and tribulations in this life. But for the saved there is a world waiting for us we cannot fathom. A world more beautiful than we have seen and more wonderful than any sound we have ever heard through the endless worship of God the Father and Jesus the Savior.
Anything that makes us more attached to this world can be a dangerous thing. It is an intentional act of the will to keep our focus on our real home. I pray we all grow increasingly in love with our eternal home. May we find ourselves investing more in our eternity. I hope we will think about that home as we make decisions about this life.
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