"For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling"
We are spiritually homeless.
Paul refers to our earthly bodies as tents, as temporary dwellings that we live in, while our eternal dwelling is being prepared.
We are in essence staying on the street until we reach our heavenly home.
Why then do we waste our days trying to avoid death, rather than living life? Why focus so much on postponing dying, that we don't take time to live?
What if we changed our mind-set? Not a morbid obsession with death, but a change in the way we view it. If we are in Christ, death has lost it's sting. In fact, it is a graduation, a promotion. Not something to be feared, but instead a natural part of our pilgrimage. And certainly not the part that deserves all our attention.
We don't have much input into the beginning, or the end of our lives...but we have lots of control over the middle. Let's live today focused on today. Trust God. Don't toss the word "faith" around flippantly...really use it. Trust God and stop obsessing about things that are in bigger hands than yours.
Remove that constant undercurrent of fear and dread in your life. Exercise your faith in God and use your energy to live with reckless joy and abandon. Live each moment to its fullest, comfortable in the fact that God has ordained your days. If you'll do this you may discover that the enemy has continually robbed you of today, by making you worry about tomorrow.
Why worry about an event that takes away your tent and gives you a mansion? Instead enjoy the camp out....you have things to do now, so do them. But know that the joy to come will be beyond your ability to imagine.
Death is a paper tiger...it has been gutted by the cross. Don't let the fear of it rob you of another minute.
Rest in the fact that today is a simply a glorious continuation of the eternal relationship God purchased for you at Calvary. And "neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38-39)
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see." - Helen Keller
Love your blog.
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