Do not fear

Do not fear!

Do not fear, you are not wandering alone some lost and uncertain path. Beyond our mortal years, there is a new life, of which this is only a shadow. On this earth we are only travelers, visiting here for just a short while. Our true home is beyond the stars, past all time and space, our native land is far above and beyond.

Pilgrims and exiles, we now abide in tents. In the world to come the Lord will build us a permanent dwelling.

It is a fool who has no understanding of our destiny and our hope. Where is hope, many ask, why does God allow suffering some ask, they accuse the Creator of injustice, or just ignore everything about God, instead of worshiping their material possessions. They are like someone who on a far-off tropical island, isolated from the modern world and suddenly a construction company arrives on the island to build a resort hotel complex. The construction site, with piles of gravel and sand, holes in the ground, lumber, and steel stacked in haphazard disarray everywhere, men going back and forth in what seems total confusion, looks like total madness, like hell. Yet what he does not see is that this apparent disorder will one day produce a beautiful resort hotel.

This is our current life on this earth, a construction zone. What awaits is the beautiful mansion in heaven. Our true home.