Temporary home. These words have been on my mind for a long time. Almost this whole year. At first, I didn't know why. I didn't understand. What was so fantastic about the words?
God has been teaching me a lot about things like this. About earth just being a temporary place. And about Heaven being an eternal place. For a while, I kind of forgot about that. I thought earth was where it's at. I enjoy living, I love being here, I love my life! But this isn't where we're going to stay forever. We're going to join God in Heaven one day, forever.
I'm going to be honest. It took quite a long time for me to fully accept that. With so many people I love leaving earth and moving on to the eternal place, I felt like I was empty inside. Sometimes I still feel empty inside. But God showed me something. He showed me that earth will one day be gone. Earth will be gone, but Heaven will still be here. Because Heaven isn't a temporary place, it's a place that will always be.
It's a beautiful thing to know. It's amazing to realize all over again that I'll see everyone one day. Because some days when I wake up in the morning, I feel sad and full of pain because I miss everyone. Sometimes I wish people would stop dying, that they would just stay on earth. But this is just the time before we live, this is the place we wait for our heavenly birth. Because God is going to take us all to Heaven one day.
You know what? Yes, I miss everyone, yes, I want to see them again, and yes, I just want all the sadness to be gone right now. But I am willing to be patient. I know I will be brought together with them someday. But until that day, I'm going to thank God for every day that he has given me in this temporary home. Because I know one day, I will be in the eternal dwelling place of God, forever and ever.
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