Thursday, November 11, 2010

Borrowed Comforts

Read this article from Living Life - and what a reminder.

Blessed day!

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As Christians, there are many times we forget where our home really is.  We try so hard to build our homes and our wealth here on earth that we lose our perspective and forget about the mansions that Christ is building for us in Heaven.  Charles Spurgeon says that "the wisdom of the Christian is to disentangle himself as much as possible of the things of this life.  He will act kindly towards the citizens of the country where he is called to dwell, and he will seek their good: still he will remember that he is not as they are.  He is an alien among them!  He may have to sell and buy in this world, but that is merely as a matter of transient convenience.

He neither buys nor sells for eternity; for his has 'bought the truth,' and he 'sells it not.'  He has received God to be his treasure, and his heart and his treasure too he has sent on ahead.  On the other side of the river of death are all his joys and all his treasures to be found.  Here he looks upon his earthly joys as things that are lent him - borrowed comforts.  If his children die, he does not wonder: he knew they are not immortal.  If his friends are taken away, he is not astonished: he understood that they are born of women, and therefore would die like the rest.  If his wealth takes to itself wings, he does not marvel: he knew that it was a bird of passage, and he is not astonished when, like the swallows, it flies elsewhere."

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