At Home With The Lord

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. For we live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:1-8

In heaven we won’t have to try and capture memories in our mind. There, we won’t have to pray for the time to go slowly and the days to pass long. There, our hello will never turn into goodbye. Heaven will be a “forever hello.”

Our good days do seem too short, and our difficult days far too long. But both kind of days cause us to long for even better days ahead.

Although the Lord is with us in this life, we cannot see Him face to face. Now we live by faith, not by sight.

God made us for the very purpose of being near to Him always. Heaven will be a forever hello.

Now we see Jesus in the Bible, but then, face to face.

Our Daily Bread – October 14, 2014