We're passing through this life for just a short time. The Bible says we're strangers, aliens on earth, citizens of "a better country — a heavenly one" (Hebrews 11). You and I know that. May our response to that truth be wholehearted as we keep our eyes on the prize:  

"For now, our life is a journey of high stakes and frequent danger. But we have turned the corner; the long years in exile are winding down and we are approaching home. There is no longer any question as to whether we will make it and if it will be good when we get there. 'I am going there to prepare a place for you,' Jesus promised. 'And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me' (John 14:2-3). One day soon we will round a bend in the road and our dreams will come true. We really will live happily ever after. The long years in exile will be swept away in the joyful tears of our arrival home.... All we long for we shall have; all we long to be, we will be.... And then real life begins." (From the chapter "Coming Home" in The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge.

Published April 8, 2009.

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