This World Is Not My Home

By Andrew Beasley     Any time I travel, and I am blessed to do so as a minister, it always shocks me how much I miss the normalcy of being at home. There is something to be said about being in your own space and sleeping in your own bed. Some have said, after a lengthy vacation, that they need a vacation to recover from their vacation. The understanding in that sentiment is that being away from home, and away from our natural environment, wears on us.     It seems to me that this is the reason that the Apostle Paul said he saw his own death as a gain (Phil. 1:21). He understood that while he was on earth he had a purpose, which is why he says in the first half of that first that to live is Christ. There was work to be done, but Paul was aware of one unifying truth and it’s one that we sing about today. This world is not our home, we’re just passing through. Christ has gone to make ready for us the home where we will rest eternally (John 14:2ff).     This truth also helps us to understand why living below in this old sinful world wears on us so heavily. This is not the place meant to be our own space, and our resting place. Heaven is where our treasures are laid up, somewhere beyond the blue.

- Andrew Beasley serves as a minister with the Northwest Church of Christ in Greensboro, NC. He may be contacted through the congregation's website: https://nwchurchofchrist.com/about/