I read this great quote in a Bible study this weekend as I was preparing, last minute, of course, for teaching Sunday school.
Jesus is not calling for us to will ourselves into a state of fake happiness. We are not to pretend life here is fun when it isn't or that our losses are not painful and at times devastating. We are to mourn and weep and suffer with the suffering that living in a place that is not our home inevitably brings. As we continue to follow Jesus our lives here will not get easier. In fact, I find that the longings, the mourning, the hungering, just gets deeper and deeper. I feel less at home here than I did many years ago. We have struggled greatly through this past year and I know many who are in difficult circumstances right now. - Trinity Center Bible Study.
I read that over and over again. Wow. That's how I feel, that's where I am and someone else feels the same way? I finally get the whole heaven is my home deal that I've been hearing about in depth since taking a Christian worldview class in college. I understood what people meant back then, but I didn't GET it. And now someone put it to words. I could have cried reading it, but I had to finish getting dressed for church.
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