There's nothing like Home Sweet Home. After a 10-day vacation, I was looking forward towards coming home. As I walked into the house, I realized my home is never perfect, never tidy or clean but I love it far better than the nicest and fanciest hotels I could ever sleep in.
When a home is temporary, it never feels like yours.
Relating this back to my Sunday God First post, that's exactly fitting to my topic today.
Our place here on earth is only temporary. We don't belong here and as Christ-followers, the ways of the world are certainly not our ways. We've been called for higher and better.
In the secular world, I've heard a definition of INTEGRITY - It's about what you do when no one is looking.
As business owners and entrepreneurs, we are constantly bombarded with opportunities to choose: the higher or the easier way. If you remember that this place is just your temporary home, no matter how much wealth you could accumulate in this world, you can't take it to your permanent home.
Instead Jesus said, For where your treasure is, there will be your heart also.
Spend time to accumulate those things that you can take it with you in your treasure chest when the Lord calls you home.
In the mean, the Lord didn't call for you not to enjoy your temporary home. Make it however you like but remember that this is only your temporary home.
Scripture of the week:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9
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Home Sweet Home
Great point Loreena about this temporal existence is our temporary home and our permanent home is with our Father in heaven. Welcome home to you and the gang. I'm sure it feels good.....
Loreena, thanks for a great post! Your definition of Integrity is right on! - David
Loreena,
We are often in need of that simple reminder, that this world is not our home, not for those of us who have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Thanks, and the analogy is quite fitting, I think.
Loreena, Getting away is wonderful therapy to help us appreciate being home and also to be able to look
beyond this physical existence that we are all in right now.
Loreena, like you returning home is just a wonderful feeling..always appreciate being away but it is never like coming home to family & what is important- not the trappings of the success but what is in the heart & soul!
Exactly! I said to a friend at church yesterday, "you know we live in a major metro area with millions of people around us. This church is my small town and you are my neighbor. BUT, we are still just here for a little while."
I hope heaven has beaches and dogs. Probably so, since God clearly likes beaches and dogs.
Loreena, I like getting away and going on vacation but I love coming home.
Definitely NOT of this world!
So glad you are home and that you had a chance to relax and enjoy the most important things in life!
Yes, it is always comforting and soothing to be in your own home. It makes you appreciate the little things.
Hi Loreena,
Welcome back!
I hope your well rested and ready to go!
Have a fabulous week.
I agree, that no matter how nice it is to be on vacation enjoying a break from the pressures of work and everything else, coming back to your home or in our case an apartment building always feel great. You can't replace that feeling.