Cozy? We're not home yet.

It’s
very easy to get so carried away with the goodies and the nice things in our
world that we forget that everything we see today is only a façade—a shadow of
the real thing. It’s so easy to assume we’ll live forever that we forget that
our stay here on earth is brief compared to our stay in eternity. It’s just
natural to focus on the here and now, on what we can see and feel, and ignore
what may or may not happen in the future. The study verse above puts it nicely
and offers a good perspective—don’t make yourselves cozy; this world is not
your home.
In
as much as you may want to have earthly relevance, don’t indulge your ego at
the expense of your soul. Simply put, don’t place so much emphasis on
satisfying your present that you ignore the repercussions that will come with
your actions in the future. Not too many people believe in a life after this
one and so they live only for today and now. But think about it—what if you’re
wrong? What if there is a life after this one and the quality of life you will live
then will depend on how you are living now? Would you not rather live a godly
life with the hope of a peaceful afterlife than live selfishly only to discover
that there really is a life after this one?
The
preparations for an afterlife are quite simple: Don’t indulge your body in practices
that diminish the value of your soul—cheating, falsehoods, jealousy, hypocrisy,
backstabbing, murder, to name a few. Remember, our days on earth are in fact
numbered and when all is said and done, you will stand trial before the Lord of
life and explain, in detail, everything you have done while you were here on
earth. Live wisely; don’t indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.
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ReplyDeleteYou know your blog sort of ties in with the thoughts I was having this morning about how tightly we hold on to stuff on this side of the divide. God has been trying to help me hold on a bit 'loose-er' to things and especially people. Its not that you don't love them anymore when you do. It is just that when we hold on so tightly, we tend to loose our grip on the most important 'person' in our lives as Christians - God. The truth is no matter how tight we hold on, loss does come. And like you say, no matter how cozy we get here, death does come and we have to leave taking nada with us! And how you deal with loss and what you face when death comes depends on your grip or not of God and your focus or not on heaven/the here after.....
ReplyDeleteI hope I just made sense. Lol! Bottom line? This is not your home and They do not belong to you.
@ Salt you just spot on. It's good to love life and live it but do so with caution knowing nothing lasts forever on this side of life.
ReplyDeleteTruly enjoyed this post and your gentle treatment of an urgent matter. This is the kind of stuff that draws readers into God's conviction instead of the enemy's condemnation. Really nicely done. God bless.
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