Our Longing to Go Home Will Be Ultimately Fulfilled on the New Earth
On the New Earth, we’ll at last be at home with the God we love and who loves us wholeheartedly.
On the New Earth, we’ll at last be at home with the God we love and who loves us wholeheartedly.
We must take responsibility for our part in God’s mission, of course, but let’s never forget that the real work is God’s work.
Our emotions are just as broken by sin as everything else is. As the Spirit of God is making us more like Jesus, He is not only changing our behavior; He is redeeming our emotional lives as well, helping us increase our thirst for God's Word.
Let us not threaten lost people with the necessity of hell. The temptation to do that must be avoided at all costs.
When we come before God, we should always stop and think about who it is were addressing. Far too often we rush into our petitions and immediately begin to ask God for what we need without considering how to pray effectively.
Division in the church is increasingly the norm. Politically-charged issues have broken friendships and wounded congregations. It’s tough to build healthy relationships when we see others as the enemy.
Every truth seeker must grasp how fundamentally flawed the worldview of material wealth is. To correct this fatal perspective, Jesus said, Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions (Luke 12:15, NIV), defining the true good life.
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They symbolically left their old way of life. They broke with the pasttheir past vocation, their sense of self, and their identity and fully embraced the future with Jesus. Thats what following Jesus does.