Lesson #4: There’s no place like homeAfter 5 hours of dark road, loneliness and creepy self-talk, I was finally home. The cliche “there’s no place like home” took its new meaning that night. Indeed, home feels safer, lovelier and happier than any road trip.
I have a favorite song when I was a kid. It says, "This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through."
Come to think of it, the reality is, this world is just 65 years (or less) for me. I'll be spending my entire eternity somewhere else.
We just finished a message series at
Grace Place, our "not your typical"
church in Makati, called "
30 days to live". It challenged us to live a life as if you only have 30 days to live because "life is just a breath" and "a mist that goes in an instant".
If my life is just a preparation for eternity, I should not waste it. I should say the words God wants me to say, do the things that God prepared for me to do, and live the life that God expects me to live.
Sometimes, when I encounter problems, I feel like I want to just disappear. Be a "Jumper". Teleport to heaven -- where disappointments, heartaches and discouragements were just a word in the dictionary. But then again, pain and sufferings are temporary, come to think of it. Heaven provides hope. The hope that when everything is said and done, Jesus will welcome me one of these days saying "Well done, my good and faithful servant".
Are you excited to be home? If not, you should know why.
