"Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country."
Jeremiah 22:10
This verse is in the context of abandoning the covenant of God, and worshipping other things, so it is an interesting symbolic statement, even though on the surface it seems to say that travel is worse than death. :)
In a very real way, God is our home and our native country. Although the veil is drawn over our premortal memories, we often get a feeling from the spirit about things that we recognize or that we already know. God is familiar to us on some level, so communicating with him and learning of him is sometimes more like remembering.
The reason given in the verse for weeping is when we let go of that internal knowledge and that spirit which helps us know where we came from and also how to get where we are going, and thus never make it back home to God. That is a much worse tragedy than physical death, because that kind of death is only a temporary state until we are all resurrected. Spiritual death is separation from God, and although Christ gave us the opportunity to repent and return to God at any point in our lives, the more we choose to walk away, the harder it gets to make a different choice, until we become past feeling and choose to die with our sins rather than letting them go.
Today, let's plan on returning and seeing our native country rather than walking away from God permanently. Whatever it is that is interfering with our relationship with God, let's go to God and work it out... solve it now, so that we don't get set in our ways and lose something that we will regret more than death.
Jeremiah 22:10
This verse is in the context of abandoning the covenant of God, and worshipping other things, so it is an interesting symbolic statement, even though on the surface it seems to say that travel is worse than death. :)
In a very real way, God is our home and our native country. Although the veil is drawn over our premortal memories, we often get a feeling from the spirit about things that we recognize or that we already know. God is familiar to us on some level, so communicating with him and learning of him is sometimes more like remembering.
The reason given in the verse for weeping is when we let go of that internal knowledge and that spirit which helps us know where we came from and also how to get where we are going, and thus never make it back home to God. That is a much worse tragedy than physical death, because that kind of death is only a temporary state until we are all resurrected. Spiritual death is separation from God, and although Christ gave us the opportunity to repent and return to God at any point in our lives, the more we choose to walk away, the harder it gets to make a different choice, until we become past feeling and choose to die with our sins rather than letting them go.
Today, let's plan on returning and seeing our native country rather than walking away from God permanently. Whatever it is that is interfering with our relationship with God, let's go to God and work it out... solve it now, so that we don't get set in our ways and lose something that we will regret more than death.
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