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Going Home
One day, Elvis Paul ran into his old buddy and reform school roommate, Earl E.
“Hey there, Elvis Paul”, Earl E. said to his old pal. “I heared you done went and got a new job. How you like it?”
“Earl E, it is the worstest job I ever did have. It’s even more worser than that there school teachin‘ job I had me back home in Kentucky.”, answered Elvis Paul.
“Hoo-eee! That there is plum hard to believe, Elvis Paul!” Earl E. replied. “Reckon ‘bout how long you done been at this here new job?”, he then asked.
“Well now, near as I can figger, ‘bout three months, give–take a month or two.”, Elvis Paul calculated.
“That long? How come don’t you up and quit?” wondered his old friend.
“Ain’t no way, Earl E”, Elvis Paul quickly said. “This here is the first time in more’n 20 years that I’ve looked forwards to goin’ home.”
Did you ever notice that lots of folks seem to be forevermore unhappy? “Why didn’t God make a better place for us?” they moan. Now, their idea of “better” no doubt includes a world without pain, without suffering, without hunger, without poverty, without tragedy, without separation, without hatred, without wars, without all the things that sometimes make life a little harder than we’d like.
I couldn‘t explain why God does things the way He does if I had all the rest of my life to do it and I‘ll tell you something else. I don’t want to. I don’t want to even try. Not one bit. As far as I’m concerned, it’s His business.
But as Christians, you and I should be able to say with full conviction that living in this world with all of its trials, difficulties, hardships and etc makes us look forward to going home. Home to be with God, that is. We look forward to the day when we’ll know no more suffering or heartache, but will rest in the arms of our loving Father.We look forward to a time and place where we’ll never have to say goodbye again. We look forward to being in a place where time has been forever lost and we’ll never grow old. We look forward to the day when we won’t see the pitiful trail sin leaves behind. We look forward to enjoying the company of God and His family for eternity.
Don’t get me wrong—I love the life God has given me here. Most of us do. He has surely blessed us all. But it can’t compare with what's waiting for us. God has made a “better” place for us and I’m looking forward to going home! Aren’t you?
“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. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John 14:2-3)
