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Two Guys Looking for Their Forever Home!

Looking for Our Forever Home

Several years ago, now, a young stray cat started showing up at our back door looking for food. Needless to say, we started giving that little fellow some food and grew concerned about his well-being. Winter was approaching and as the weather started getting colder, we were concerned about his safety at night.

He had no tags so we didn’t know if he had a home nearby and was just looking for some more food or if he was one of those cats that had no home. We kept an eye out for him and when he started sleeping on our patio, we put a big cardboard box with towels inside to help him keep warm at night.

As the weather kept getting colder and he kept sleeping on our patio, we decided we had to do something for him, so we decided to give him a forever home.

I’m happy to report our little rescue cat now has a forever home where he is safe, warm and loved!

Two Rescue Cats That Now Have Forever Homes!

A Christian’s Longing for Their Forever Home

The Bible reveals that we, as Christians, also have a forever home, a home being prepared for us by the Lord Jesus Christ. There is a time, appointed by God, that we will occupy our forever home but we can only anticipate this by faith alone.

As human beings, we are severely limited in what we can experience encased in these mortal bodies. It is vital to recognize our bodies are temporary tents which we will occupy for only a brief amount of time. Our spiritual essence, made in the image of God, is much grander than anything that would be suggested by looking at our tents. 

As Christians, the reality of our condition is fully hidden from mortal eyes; at the time of our new birth, we were indwelt by God, the Holy Spirit, making us temples of God. The glory of God envelopes us but cannot be seen by the tents we occupy.

It has pleased our Creator to make faith the guiding principle in this Age of Grace. In 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 it is written:

“⁶ Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. ⁷ For we live by faith, not by sight. ⁸ We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.”

The entire Christian experience is based on faith; from the moment of our salvation to our last mortal breath we are creatures of faith; looking beyond ourselves to the eternal plan, formulated by God, that determines our life and destiny.

I have, for many years, rejoiced in the truths I find in Psalms 139:16 where it is written:

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

This reassures me my times are in God’s hands and I glory and rejoice in that precious thought!

An Alien Environment

Christians will live out their entire mortality phase as soldiers in an ancient spiritual conflict that has been in progress for thousands of years. We have also been entrusted with responsibilities as ambassadors and priests for our creator. 

God has predetermined the exact amount of time we will devote to these responsibilities and knows precisely the time of our recall. We can rejoice in the sure knowledge that God is working all things after the counsel of his own will and will call us home at the appointed time.

In an interesting twist, we were born on a Satanically dominated alien battlefield and have never actually seen our home; we know of our home by faith alone and eagerly look forward to seeing it in person!

I have noted, with great interest, the alien nature of this battlefield seems to increase with each passing year; there seems to be a deterioration that is steadily plunging everything to ever lower levels of sin and depravity!

This makes the thoughts of home ever so much more welcoming to me.

Next time, “Longing for the New Jerusalem”