2 Corinthians 5:3

"If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked."
2 Corinthians 5:3


This is an interesting scripture.  It is really about mortality, and the chapter has some beautiful imagery... but what it made me think of was the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes.  We go through this life sometimes like that.  collecting and paying out huge amounts of resources for something imaginary.  Working overtime and on weekends for something, that in the end, we find out doesn't exist.  C. S. Lewis, in The Great Divorce, talks similarly.  Some people in Hell take a bus trip to heaven to find out if they want to go there.  And, what they find is that everything in Heaven is so much more *real* than anything in Hell.  More solid... walking on the grass hurts their feet because they are not as solid as the grass is. :)  And so, if they decide to stay, they have to learn to be more real.  A very interesting story... if any of you haven't read it, I encourage you to do so. :)  The things of God are real.  Today, let's think about our lives, and make sure what we are working for really exists.  We don't want to spend our lives weaving cloth, making spectacular new clothes, and then find out that it was imaginary all along. :)