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Honey From The Rock Psalm 81:16 |
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MAN'S LONG HOME This entry was posted on 06-24-2009 and is filed under HEAVEN. "...because man goeth to his long home..." (Ecc. 12:5 KJV).
I remember one of my professors in Bible college pointing this verse out to me many years ago. The phrase "man's long home" has stuck with me ever since. Here is how it reads in the NKJV: "For man goes to his eternal home." The NIV translates it nearly the same.The context is a man who has grown old and is nearing death. I think of my own father, just a few months ago now, who died on April 25 at the age of 93. Dad has gone to his "long home" - his "eternal home." And for that I am thankful, even though I miss him so. No home on this earth has been, is or ever will be a "long home" - an "eternal home." Everything here is terminal. Everything there is eternal. Once you get to Heaven you are there forever and ever and ever. You will never want to leave. You will not even think about leaving and moving on to somewhere else. You will be content as never before. Nail it to the wall of your heavenly mansion: "Home, Eternal Home." How many times have you heard a loved one say, "I just want to go home." They are not talking about the home of their youth, or some former home. They are thinking and dreaming and talking and longing for their "long home." How good of God to prepare for us a home in Glory. It will be the most comfortable home you have ever lived in. You can settle down in it forever and ever and ever! No house payments. No repairs. No eviction notices. No "eminent domain" kicking you out. No thieves breaking in. Just home, home eternal, home sweet home! Hymn: "O Beulah land, sweet Beulah land, as on thy highest mount I stand, I look away across the sea, where mansions are prepared for me, and view the shining glory shore, my heaven, my home forevermore!" (Edgar Page Stites). |
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