I've had a fairly crisis-free life. I'm not saying I haven't experienced pain or death of people close to me, I have. But, most, if not all were due to "normal life experiences." This has led to a "here and now" type of thinking, because of the prominantly good life. Lately, I have noticed some small and large things that have changed this thinking to an anticipation of heaven. Some of these were just hearing a story about a child finding a gun, playing with it, and shooting themselves (what a unnecessary tragedy)... a person from my church back home committed suicide this week (I haven't even had a chance to talk to the family yet, since I just found out about midnight last night... but I know their hearts are broken)... there are others, but this is sufficient. So, I've found myself praying this prayer lately: "Come, Lord Jesus... Come Quickly!"
Do you pray this prayer, find yourselves weary of this world and its pain, or have other insights into situations like these for me?
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We were talking about this with one of the guys who runs our missions agency, about a young girl who died just before going to the field. His words really stuck with me-- he said (paraphrasing), "Yeah, when I was young it was hard to think about looking forward to heaven, because this life seemed pretty easy. The older I've gotten and the more I've seen, I don't really have that problem anymore."
yes. totally.
you know, i think that's one of the reasons that the early church fathers thought He'd be coming back sooner than later.
they just couldn't deal with it anymore!
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