"Living In A Leaky Tent", by Pastor Kevin Lynch

That's how Paul describes our living in our physical earthbound body. A tent. Tents sometimes, if not often, leak.

They even become destroyed. In fact, someday it will simply dissolve away back to dust.

Uh-oh. Then what?

You would be surprised at how many don't know about the "then what".

2 Corinthians 5:1 (Amplified Bible) - "FOR WE know that if the tent which is our earthly home is destroyed (dissolved), we have from God a building, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."

Paul is not talking about mansions and dwellings that we will someday live "under", but rather the new spiritual body that we will be "clothed" in.

Someday, during the great Rapture of the Church, the dead in Christ (ALL of those who ever lived and died with Christ as their Savior) will rise from the grave and be caught up with Christ in the air. Paul also tells us that after the dead rise, we who are alive at that time will be caught up with Christ in the air as well, and given new incorruptible "glorified" bodies (nothing corrupt enters heaven)!

"1 Th. 4:15 - For this we declare to you by the Lord's [own] word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way precede [into His presence] or have any advantage at all over those who have previously fallen asleep [in Him in death]. (16) For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first. (17) Then we, the living ones who remain [on the earth], shall simultaneously be caught up along with [the resurrected dead] in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always (through the eternity of the eternities) we shall be with the Lord!"

The leaky tent will be replaced with a new and eternally durable body that will never suffer decay, aging, sickness, disease, corruption, etc.

Sounds like a deal.

Your earth tent may present some real difficulties during this short period we spend here. Pain, sickness, emotional distress.

It's a comfort to know that it is only temporary. Someday it will be far better than anything we can imagine.

We are just visiting, passing through.

Our true home is in heaven with Jesus Christ. I know it is a fantastic thought, and it seems so far off, but it's a future reality.

Do you believe that today? If so then tell as many people as you can about Jesus and the home He has prepared for us with Him.

Listen for the Voice, the Shout, the blare of the Trumpet! Someday we will hear it! What a glorious day that will be!

Keepin it Real,

Pastor Kevin <><