(Only the World
by Mandisa )
Heaven is a place where the tears on every face will be wiped away / Oh, And I can’t wait to go, but for now it’s enough to know / This is only temporary
Have you ever stubbed your toe? It’s amazing how much pain can shoot through your body in a split second when that toe connects with the corner of the couch or the kitchen table. We shout and jump up and down, waiting for the pain to subsideâ€"and it does. The pain we experience from a stubbed toe hurts a lot at first, but fades quickly.
Not so is much of the other pain in our lives; the emotional and relational pain we encounter can be crippling at times. We cry out to God, asking for the pain to be taken away. And sometimes, it seems as though our cries go unheard. But how comforting to know that the pain isn’t forever. What we struggle with here on earth is only temporary. One day we’ll be in the arms of our loving Savior as he wipes away our tears. How wonderful to imagine that eternal lifeâ€"a life with no pain.
2 Corinthians 5:1-2
For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PASTOR CARL BENTON
