You looked forward to the visit with family, the weekend getaway, or the vacation. The travel and time spent were enjoyable and refreshing, even if there were bumps and mishaps. But no matter how sweet those moments were, it was so good to be home. Being at home involves a mix of joyful and not-so-happy times, busy schedules, stressful trials, and sometimes declining health, but they are only momentary this side of heaven.
Jesus comforts believers that He prepared a place for us when we leave our temporary dwellings, and we will spend eternity with Him (John 14:2–3). Paul writes: “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For this, we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven” (2 Corinthians 5:1–2).
When these earthly bodies draw their last breath, we are present with the Lord (v. 8) in our eternal home, clothed in a new and incorruptible body. Finally, home with our heavenly Father, pain and sin-free.
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