Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of Gordon Mote and his wife Kimberly singing … On The Other Side … poignantly singing of what we Christians have waiting for us in glory to be home with Jesus forever.
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Highlight Verse[s]: John 14:2-3 [NLT] … 2 There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?
… Just before Jesus was to leave His Disciples in death, He promised to bring them to their eternal home to be with Him forever.
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Highlight Passage [context]: John 14:1-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus promises His Disciples their eternal home will be waiting for them in glory.
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Reference Passage : … Philippians 3:14, … 20 … 14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. … 20 But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior.
… Our Lord, thru Paul, promises to return for us and take us to live with Him in glory. So, we must press on in life, focusing on where we’re going, not where we are.
Reference Passage : … Colossians 3:1-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s promise, thru Paul’s teaching, of what we have waiting for us … our home in glory to be with our Savior forever.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Dave Branon, uses a personal remembrance to illustrate that our focus in life should always be our eternal home in heaven. The ODB author writes … Recently a friend who sold homes for a living died of cancer. As my wife and I reminisced about Patsy, Sue recalled that many years ago Patsy had led a man to faith in Jesus and he became a good friend of ours.
How encouraging to recall that Patsy not only helped families find homes to live in here in our community, but she also helped others make sure they had an eternal home. …
We love to have a nice home in this life—a special place for our family to eat, sleep, and enjoy each other’s company. But think of how amazing it will be when we step into the next life and discover that God has taken care of our eternal accommodations.
Sure, if we are so fortunate, we should all be grateful for an earthly home for our earthly family; but as the ODB author points us, our real focus in life should be, as it was for Patsy in the above ODB entry, to move ourselves toward our heavenly home and to help others get there as well.
That’s why the Apostle Paul was so focused on his trek toward his eternal home (see the passages in Phil. 3 and Col. 3 above) and his calling to point other Christians toward that eternal prize. So, let’s all keep our eyes on our eternal home in heaven and be sure to take any opportunity we have on this side to help others find their way, as Gordon and Kimberly Mote sing, … to “The Other Side.”
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for Your promise of our eternal home in Heaven.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here have our earthly eyes on the eternal prize of our home in heaven. … Amen
Blogger Note: Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries. If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.
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