During times like Mother’s Day weekend, we get to celebrate the joy of what is.
For so many, though, the joy of what is to come is the only thing to assuage the pain of now.
No matter what kind of weekend you had, let’s fix our eyes on Him and our True Home:
“Heaven is our home. Paul said, ‘As long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord…We would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord’ (2 Cor. 5:6-8).
Paul said we’d prefer to be in heaven, our true home. Home is the place of acceptance, security, rest, refuge, deep personal relationships, and great memories.
God’s people, aliens and strangers on earth, spend their lives ‘looking forward to a country they can call their own’ and ‘looking for a better place, a heavenly homeland’ (Heb. 11:14, 16 NLT). The capital of this heavenly country will be a ‘city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God’ (Heb 11:10 NLT). This city will have all the freshness, vitality, and openness of the country with all the vibrancy, interdependence, and relationships of a city. A city without crime, litter, smog, sirens, seaminess, or slums.
Heaven will have an endless supply of fresh water and delicious food. No famine or drought. Christ promised we would eat and drink with him – along with Abraham and others (Matt 8:11). We’ll meet and converse with other inhabitants of heaven. Not only Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but Moses, David, Ruth, Esther, Mary and Peter. I look forward to conversations with C.S. Lewis, A.W. Tozer, Jonathan Edwards, and Amy Carmichael…
God gave Adam and Eve creativity in their unfallen state that was twisted but remained when they fell. He will surely not give us less creativity in heaven but more, unmarred by sin, unlimited by mortality. We will compose, write, paint, carve, build, plant, and grow.”
(Alcorn, Money, Possessions, and Eternity pages 113, 114).