Home Sweet Home!
Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalms 23:6
For some of us, the love of God doesn’t feel real. Why is that? Because we have tried to make this earth our home. And as a result, we live with worry and frustration. Only when you have the right view of there will you have the right view of here. When you understand your true home, death is never a full stop; instead, it’s a conjunction.
Less than one second after you die, you will be escorted into the presence of God. You won’t even be dead long enough to know you died. You don’t expire; you transfer. Quicker than you can blink, you move from one dimension to another. You go from living in this time to dwelling ‘in the house of the LORD forever’.
Most of us will not die suddenly of a heart attack, or a stroke, or in a car crash. For most of us, death will come gradually as we wear down over time. You will feel your body deteriorating and atrophying, and you will know you’re nearing death. Then, God will put you into transition mode. He will make heaven look much more appealing than earth so that you will be thinking, ‘I wish God would just hurry up and take me home.’ He may even give you a little preview of glory and let you see your Savior waiting to welcome you. When you glimpse those arms wide open, you will want the trip to hurry up and take place. You will say like David, ‘As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness’ (Psalm 17:15). Home sweet home!
Prayer
Heavenly Father, I know as long as You have me here, You still have work for me to do before You call and say, “my table is ready”. I do long for that call. In Jesus’ Name, Amen
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Interesting thoughts about dying and preparing ourselves for the new life in heaven. I’ve been keeping a log since last June of people that have passed away “before their time” but obviously in God’s time. Over 30 have passed; church people, relatives, neighbors, people we see at the grocery store or donut shop. Young people and older members. Some prepared, some surprised, some who suffered in pain, some who took their own lives. Most of them Christians with varying levels of faith.
I’m 71, am I prepared? I hope so, I feel the changes in life, and the “changing of the guard” to our children and grand-children. It’s clear that the pressures of the world today go way beyond anything we experienced growing up in the baby boomer era. We’re still boomers.
So we long for hope but know that our faith by God’s grace will see us through to the heavenly side. We are just strangers here, heaven will be our next address, heaven will be our home.
Thanks and praise to God!