2 Corinthians 5:1-2, 5-9<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0For we know that if the earthly\u00a0tent\u00a0we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.\u00a02\u00a0<\/b>Meanwhile we groan,longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,5\u00a0<\/b>Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. \u00a06\u00a0<\/b>Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.\u00a07\u00a0<\/b>For we live by faith, not by sight.\u00a08\u00a0<\/b>We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.\u00a09\u00a0<\/b>So we make it our goal to please him,\u00a0whether we are at home in the body or away from it.<\/p>\n
God has a goal for all of us and that is for us to be with Him forever. \u00a0It is our hope and dream. We look at all the pain in this world and long to be where the pain no longer touches us. \u00a0God has prepared that place for us. \u00a0However not having pain is not the best thing about heaven. \u00a0The best thing is that we will forever be with our Lord. \u00a0That is our hope and there is no greater hope.<\/p>\n
The following verses tell of the heroes of the bible, those of great faith who didn’t settle for the things of this earth, but pushed on, through struggles, torture and death, to receive their reward of being with God in heaven. \u00a0Hebrews 11:14-16<\/strong> –\u00a014\u00a0<\/b>People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own.\u00a015\u00a0<\/b>If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.\u00a016\u00a0<\/b>Instead, they were longing for a better country\u2014a heavenly one.\u00a0Therefore God is not ashamed\u00a0to be called their God,\u00a0for he has prepared a city\u00a0for them.<\/p>\n Let us likewise remember the mortality we all share and pray that we might be used by our God to share what we possess…Jesus.<\/p>\n IHS 7\/9\/14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2 Corinthians 5:1-2, 5-9\u00a0–\u00a0For we know that if the earthly\u00a0tent\u00a0we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.\u00a02\u00a0Meanwhile we groan,longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,5\u00a0Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[704,694,538,319,257,678,681,187,675,701,199,686,677,692,683,80,92,684,130,690,7,659,368,687,679,14,688,46,446,682,680,1019,702,42,691,510,685,697,551,703,700,696,689,22,698,676,699,693,695,321],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations","tag-ashamed","tag-best","tag-better","tag-bible","tag-body","tag-building","tag-clothed","tag-confident","tag-corinthians-earthly","tag-country","tag-death","tag-deposit","tag-destroyed","tag-dream","tag-dwelling","tag-eternal","tag-faith","tag-fashioned","tag-forever","tag-goal","tag-god","tag-greater","tag-groan","tag-guaranteeing","tag-hands","tag-heaven","tag-home","tag-hope","tag-human","tag-instead","tag-longing","tag-lord","tag-opportunity","tag-pain","tag-please","tag-prefer","tag-purpose","tag-pushed","tag-receive","tag-return","tag-reward","tag-settle","tag-sight","tag-spirit","tag-struggles","tag-tent","tag-torture","tag-touches","tag-verses","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}