My Hope Rests In My True Home

The more time I spend in this life, the more I wish that it was over. Now I'm not saying that I want to end my life. My life is not mine to take. It was given to Christ long ago. It is His decision and His alone. What I am saying though is that this world has a deadly cancer that has permeated it to the core--sin. This sin continuously multiplies, corrupting and infecting everything in its reach. This cancer has left a bitter taste in my mouth. As a Christian, I have been promised that one day, I will be able to trade in all this infection from sin for a unencumbered eternity. Simply awesome. How great it will be on that day. To hear my Lord and Savior say, "Well done, my good and faithful servant." To feel the relief that my own personal struggle with sin is no more. That is what I long for, to be able to spend an eternity without the burdens imposed by the world and my very own earthly nature. Burdens such as earthly desires, stress, and sickness will be forgotten. Haste the Day, oh Lord, when my faith shall be made sight.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. -C.S. Lewis

But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them. -Hebrews 11:16 (NASB)

For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind. -Isaiah 65:17 (NASB)

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away." And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new " And He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true." Then He said to me, "It is done I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost." He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. -Revelation 21:1-7 (NASB)

But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. -2 Peter 3:13 (NASB)

What tranquility will there be in heaven! Who can express the fullness and blessedness of this peace! What a calm is this! How sweet and holy and joyous! What a haven of rest to enter, after having passed through the storms and tempests of this world, in which pride and selfishness and envy and malice and scorn and contempt and contention and vice are as waves of a restless ocean, always rolling, and often dashed about in violence and fury! What a Canaan of rest to come to, after going through this waste and howling wilderness, full of snares and pitfalls and poisonous serpents, where no rest could be found. -Jonathan Edwards