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Thanks so much for joining me for today's encouraging word.

Jesus said, for God so loved the world that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have

eternal life, eternal life. So with God's's help don't you think it'd be good to

expand our view of this life and consider our eternal lives but we need it the twists and turns of

this life have a way of reminding us we're not home we're not home this isn't home this isn't our homeland we can

tell and boy we've been reminded in the last weeks and months we're not fluent in the language of

disease and death and pandemic and such severe problems and the culture the culture confuses our heart

hearts and the noise disrupts our sleep we feel far from

home and you know what that's okay that's okay because the truth is we are far from home the wise man said

god has said eternity in the hearts of people.

Down deep inside of you, you know, you know you're not home.

So I would like to encourage you, be careful and don't act like you are.

Don't act like you are.

You wouldn't hang pictures on the wall of a Greyhound bus, would you? You wouldn't set up a bedroom at the

roadside rest stop, right? Do you load your king-sized bed on a commercial flight? Of course not.

Then why would you treat this world like it's home? It isn't. The greatest calamity, friend, is not to feel

far from home when you are. The greatest calamity is to feel right at home when you're not. Yeah,

I'll say it again. The greatest calamity is not to feel far from home when you are, but to feel right at home

when you're not. Don't quench, but rather stir this longing, this longing for heaven.

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