Over The Shoulder
Jan 28 – 2013

So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. 2 Corinthians 5: 6-9 (ESV).

There is a popular music chart hit song by singer Michael Buble called Home with few of the lines saying this: May be surrounded by A million people I Still feel all alone I just wanna go home and Let me go home I’m just too far from where you are I wanna come home.

Adventuresomeness, yes. That in this scripture verse; Paul uses the synonym courage twice. This way or that we are always on the move. A work commute, a family outing, and many in-betweens; we always want to come home. My children often say after a long car ride when we pull into the drive way: Home sweet home…We have also heard of the saying: Home is where the heart is. So it is dear brethren, that the Church’s heart is set heavenward, our true home. When Christ set eternity into our hearts (Ecc. 3:11) he purposed for every man, woman, and child to long for our Home Sweet Home. Whether Christian or not, everyone in this tent groans to come away from this tent into our heavenly dwelling. Walking can not see it any other way. So how are we at good courage in this? The answer is in the last half of the closing verse: we make it our aim to please him. In pleasing Christ we become whole to know that when we go to and fro here in this earthly vessel, surrounded by a million people yet still feeling alone, that Christ’s Spirit in us restores us far from this tent into His. All this an adventure, home or away, letting us, now ushering us, with good courage to walk into a surround sound home face to face with Jesus: our home sweet home. Yes and Amen!