2 Corinthians 5:1–5 (ESV) — 1 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly
home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our
heavenly dwelling, 3 if indeed by putting it on we may not be found
naked. 4 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being
burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed,
so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us
the Spirit as a guarantee.
NOTE: We say these
things, but we don't believe them. We live for this life and don't believe that
heaven is better. I've seen and heard people say, "but I want to see my
children grow up, or get married, or have kids …" We don't believe heaven
is better. We don't groan for our new bodies. We don't believe God. I suppose
we might blame God that he made the temporal life so wonderful (except for our
addition of sin during the rebellion), that we don't want to believe. But God
said, no one has given up parents, children, homes,… for my sake will not receive a hundred times
more in this life and the life to come. What does that mean? We do not know
completely. But can believe the character of God that we will not miss out on
anything when we go to be with our savior.
PRAYER: Father, help
our unbelief. We want to trust but the world tugs at our heart. We struggle in
a body that is diseased with sin. We are set free from our old nature, but the
vestiges of that old nature tug at us making us do the things we don't want to
do. Forgive us for our sin. Have mercy on us. Give us your strength and grace.
Bring good out of the garbage we create and call life.
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