Good Wednesday morning! Yes, it's already morning of mid-week. Here you go, another devotional with no stats about how many will re post it, no veiled threats that God will toss you from the kingdom for not passing it on, and no calling you names for not reading this while standing on your head and twirling small hoops with your toes. Can you tell I've looked at e-mail and Facebook already this morning? Whee-oo! You can just feel the cold coming off those windows when opening the blinds this morning! I don't know about you, but every winter after a couple days of the real cold, I'm always ready for spring to start. I seem to have this thing where I like the approach of winter and the time when the days are in the 40's and the nights in the 20's, but when we have minus temps, then I'm ready for the end of winter. We just received a wind chill advisory too! On the other side of the globe, the folks around Brisbane in Australia are fighting a scourge of water. Sometimes my complaining about the weather doesn't look so good in light what is happening somewhere else on the planet...
After a few long and more serious devotionals, I'm not feeling all that deep and serious today. This past month or so has been tough for me, especially in the mornings. The symptoms are not new as I seem to suffer them to a greater or lesser degree each winter at about the time when bad things happened to me many years ago. Oy! That sounds both deep and serious! Good news for today is that our seriously cold weather is supposed to go away tomorrow. Getting back to more normal winter temps will seem like a much greater blessing after the past couple of days. The sun coming in the windows looks particularly nice after the cold, cold night too. How 'bout we imagine a place where the weather is perfect and the water stays where it is supposed to?
We have to imagine it because if you are reading this then you and me are right here on Earth where the fallen and cursed Creation still has much to do with our everyday lives. Heaven has not arrived here yet and Jesus has not renewed His Creation. We can imagine Heaven and go to extremes in doing so, and still fall short of what the glory of God will reveal in our eternal home. We can take the easy route and imagine that Heaven is just a place not like it is here, but that doesn't work either, after all the burning outer darkness of Hell isn't like it is here. We do have some clues from the Bible though. Pain and suffering - gone! That would be a good place to be already! Sorrow and separation - gone! We sorrow much from partings in this life. Jesus will be there with God our Father! Better and better. Together forever with our loved ones and Jesus, well some days that might just seem like too much to hope for, but there it is! Look forward to our hope in God's glorious presence!
Have a joyous day!
Bucky
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