GOD’S WORD FOR JANUARY 24

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.

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YOUR FUTURE HOME

Hebrews 13:14

“For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

D. L. MOODY

Surely it is not wrong for us to think and talk about heaven.  I like to locate it and find out all I can about it.  I expect to live there through all eternity.  If I were going to dwell in any place in this country, if I were going to make it my home, I would inquire about its climate, about the neighbors  I would have,— about everything,  in fact, that I could learn concerning it.  If soon you were going to emigrate, that is the way you would feel.

Well, we are all going to emigrate in a very little while.  We are going to spend eternity in another world, and if you are saved, it will be a grand and glorious world where God reigns. 

Is it not natural that we should look and listen and try to find out who is already there and what is the route to take?

ERWIN LUTZER

We should take Moody’s advice!  People who plan a trip to Europe spend hours reading travel books and studying maps about the places they hope to visit.  Should we not be even more motivated by the fact that we are traveling to another world?  We are leaving the land of the dying for the land of the living.

Death is not the end of the road, it’s just a bend in the road.  When you go from this life into the next, you are immediately in that realm beyond.

A poor, little boy gazed longingly at toys in the store window.  When he was finally gifted a toy for the first time, he exclaimed, “There’s no glass between!” 

In heaven, there will be a whole new reality – a new way of seeing.  ….no “glass” between.

“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.” (1 Corinthians13:12).

You were made for another world.  Live today for eternity.

PRAYER

Father, may I live today and give you glory.  You are my hope and eternity is my focus.

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Psalm 37:18 & 29

The Lord knows the days of the upright,   and their inheritance shall be forever……

The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell in it forever.

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Psalm 46:4-5

There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God,

The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.

God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved;

God shall help her, just at the break of dawn.

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