(Mission Cast) Our Future Dwelling Place (Psalm 84:1 ; John 14:2) (Hope)
It’s Saturday in Holy Week. Jeff and Mim discuss our future, eternal home with the Lord. Mim comments how she feels “orphaned” these days and a little lost. Both her parents have died and are now in the arms of Jesus. Mim misses the way her parent’s delighted in her. She knows God delights in her. Maybe you can relate? We didn’t talk about it, but Martin Luther firmly confessed that our ultimate hope is not a disembodied heaven, but the resurrection of the body on the Last Day, when Christ returns. Luther wrote: “We shall sleep until he knocks on the grave and say, ‘Arise!’” Death is a sound, sweet sleep, but the soul does not sleep in the same manner as the body. It is awake and living before God, experiencing visions and discourses with the angels and with God. So, in this sense, we both dwell with the Lord and also sleep. Blessed Easter!
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