A better country
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There can be no question but that trials and sufferings here cause us to think more about our heavenly home. In the midst of Job’s great sufferings he said, “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God” ( Job 19:25-26 ). (When the disciples were grieving after Jesus told them He was going away, He comforted them with the truth about their home above. “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also” ( John 14:1-3 ).
In a time a prosperity it is easy to become so comfortable with our circumstances that little thought is given to heaven; but when there are losses and heartaches, sickness and death, we are reminded that we are but strangers and pilgrims here and with Abraham “desire a better country, that is, an heavenly.”