Be Different. Live In Reverant Fear!

NIV John 14:1 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

Camping can be fun right? I enjoyed my hunting trip to Alaska, but if you remember I was happy to come home. It was very tiring. Everything we did took 10 times longer. Everything we did took extra work. There was no time for Rest and Relaxation. By the end of the 7 days, my body was run down. I needed to rest. My body couldn’t keep that work up for ….well I was convinced another minute. You see our float plane as scheduled to pick us up exactly one month after 9/11! Well when our float plane didn’t show up 30 minutes after our scheduled time… we begin to use our imagination in a bad way. We thought maybe Pres. Bush ordered a retaliation against the terrorists. Maybe there was a no fly ban on all aircraft. Maybe the terrorist attacked again. Maybe the secretary forget to write down the day of our pickup. We took inventory of our food . We talked about how long we could survive. We started to search for our signal flares and reflection mirrors. I paced. Exhausted, mentally and physically of living out on the Alaskan Tundra. With each minute I became more and more impatient and angry. The plane arrived some 2 and half hours late – My face was filled with anger toward the pilot as he got out of the plane and he calmly said, Sorry fellas, we were fogged in at King Salmon.

I thank God that I have running water, dry clothes, soft couches, and microwave ovens and even a smooth bed. I was so happy to be home. AS a Christian heaven is so great I cannot wait to get there and finally be at home. Remember where your home is? Our home is in the lush cushy mansions of heaven. This camping trip isn’t supposed to last forever. When things are rough in life, with sickness, people, weather, finances… remember this is a camping trip – we are roughing it. The Lord will lead us home shortly. We don’t have to stay here much longer. AS you do be different, Live in reverent fear. Because you know who your Father is. You know the price he paid for you and you know where your home is.

The peace of God which surpasses all understand keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.