I guess I am feeling a bit introspective. We have been re-doing the hardwood floors in our house, sanding them down to the bare wood and then re-staining them to their original luster. Then, we painted all the baseboards with high gloss enamel. For obvious reasons, I have not been able to stay in the house and breathe all the fumes. So, for about a year--since we have a large house with 3 floors, I have been staying at another location. Just cleaning up all the dust and repainting the walls, enlarging a master bedroom bath, and putting in a washer and dryer upstairs has been a huge undertaking. Yesterday, we moved back home.
It is like moving into a new house. I did not realize how much stuff we had. Everything that went back on the floors had to have felt put on the legs. We decided to only keep the things we truly loved. It was so hard making all the decisions. This is what started me down the path of thinking about heaven. We come into the world with nothing and leave, taking nothing with us. God has this moving thing down.
Matthew 6:10 (KJV) "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."
John 14:2 (KJV) "“In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
Our Daddy God loves us so much He has taken care of all the arrangements. The only thing He asks of us, is that we prepare ourselves. Our responsibility is to prepare our hearts. Our responsibility is to get to know our Heavenly Father and to learn His language, learn to love what He loves and hate what He hates. We take care of our earthly house and He takes care of our home for eternity.
Action Step: Get your house in order. Prepare your heart. Get to know your Heavenly Father by reading His word and talking to Him in prayer. Learn to recognize His voice. When you know it is He that is speaking with you, obey His instructions. He loves us and is preparing a place for us.
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