Where is your home? Have you moved around a lot during your life? Was it due to work transfers or just because you couldn’t find a place you felt at home? Are you happy with your body? Do you have good physical health? Or are you experiencing health problems?
Being satisfied with our bodies, our health, and our homes can be a challenge. We may have several things we would like to change about them. Our dissatisfaction can cause us to miss what is truly important. On the other hand, it can cause us to realize what is truly important.
So, what is truly important? Many of us will say family or having close friends. Even those who chase after the almighty dollar will state family or friends is more important, though their behavior may say something different. We have been conditioned to give that answer, whether we believe it or not.
Unfortunately, it is not the correct answer. What is truly important is that we have an eternal home with God. Though we may not have the best home here on earth nor the greatest of health, we can look forward to spending eternity perfectly God’s creation in God’s perfect creation. The lack of perfection on this earth should cause us to continually focus on the perfection coming. It is the most important thing we can ever be given. It is the greatest gift God can give. Shifting our focus from the downside of this life to the upside of eternal life will bring us joy beyond comprehension.
I pray we all reduce our worry and anxiety about this life. I pray we choose to focus on God’s promise of eternity with him. I pray each one of us will shift our focus and experience the joy God is waiting to give us. Know this life will end. Know there will be trouble in this life. Know that God has a perfect place waiting for you. Shift your focus. Focus on eternity with God.
2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Marty Pressey 