2 Corinthians 5:1-4 -- On Mortality and Eternal Life

"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life."

2 Corinthians 5:1-4

I like the idea here that we are homesick for heaven, wanting to escape mortality and get back to eternity.  ... Not that we need to rush that, mind you, or that we don't have plenty to accomplish in this life, but I really love that death isn't a dark portal to an unwanted future, but rather a passage to a better world that we want to return to.  I love that it isn't something that we need to be afraid of, but something that can bless us with peace and fill us with joy, despite the earthly sorrow we feel at the temporary absence of our loved ones who pass on.

Today, let's remember that with God mortality can be swallowed up with life... that because Christ rose again, life won against death, and he grants that blessing to us all... a guarantee that we will live again, and a real way back not just to immortality, but to eternal happiness through God's plan and the strait and narrow path laid before us by Christ.  Let's take the opportunities that Christ has given us and walk that path back to God, to be part of the triumph of life.