What's Coming Up
Thanking God for the wild ride he is allowing us to take together here on earth!
Well, we have moved our clocks up for the spring daylight savings time change. The Shiloh daffodils have come up out of the ground and the spring CHORES at coming up as well. Easter is coming up in just a few weeks and the Andrews family has twelve birthday celebrations coming up this spring. College students will have final exams and summer break coming up and I know several pregnant women who have the delivery of their babies coming up.
There is always something on our horizons. Like the thought or not, we all have our earthly departure coming up.
The next time someone asks you what your future plans are say, "I am really looking forward to seeing the dwelling place Jesus has gone to prepare for me."
There are many rooms in my Father's house. I wouldn't tell you this, unless it was true. I am going there to prepare a place for each of you. John 14:2
Meditating on this passage I am across these thoughts by Jeremy Myers.
"Jesus has in mind the Jewish wedding tradition where after a man and woman were betrothed to be married, the man would go off and build a home for his new bride.
The construction of this new home would take several months, or even up to a couple years, and the bride-to-be did not know exactly when the groom-to-be would be finished. Her only option was to wait and to be prepared.
When the man finished building his home, he would gather his friends and family and begin a wedding procession from his new home through town to his bride’s house. By the time they arrived, it would be a huge parade and party. The bride would go out to meet her husband, and they would return to his new house, where there would be a big Jewish wedding, full of food and festivities.
So it is often taught that when Jesus says, “I go now to prepare a place for you” this is what He had in mind. He is the Groom and the church is His Bride, and He has gone off to prepare a dwelling place for us, and we do not know how long it will take or when He will come for us, but we need to be ready and wait patiently. When he returns, He will take us to be with Him, and there will be a big party."
Whatever you have coming up today God is with you there.
The Song
“Heaven is Where You Are” Paul Baloche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj50UXjxptM
