My child, this world is not your home. Your inheritance is with Me. Remember this as you journey towards heaven. Remember that everything here on earth is temporary except relationships. Relationship with Me and with other believers. Focus on what lasts, not on things that are temporal.
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My child, I have placed eternity in your heart. You get restless because this is not your home. You will never feel completely comfortable here on earth. I designed you to long for your heavenly home during your brief stay here on earth. Be strong and courageous and endure to the end. I have you here for My purposes.
Not Just Religion
The Christian faith isn’t just another religion wherein one must try to earn enough brownie points to get to heaven. Every religion on the face of the planet operates in this paradigm, but not so with Christianity. Rather, our faith is based on a living, vital relationship with our Creator Himself. He understands us, and has made provision for our sin.
But the nature of this provision is difficult to comprehend—and sometimes even harder to accept—because it flies in the face of what we typically learn about religion through our life experience (what Paul calls the “elementary principles of the world”).(Colossians 2:8, 20-21)
Being inbred in man’s psyche, these “elementary principles” intuitively serve as the foundation of our efforts to please God. But He has provided something better than a host of rules and regulations to deal with our sinful nature. It is the Spirit who gives the kind of life the law never could!(2 Corinthians 3:6) Still, there exists within each of us a basic instinct to rely on law in our attempt to live for God. And a better understanding of the nature of law sheds great light on why we behave this way.