Live Dangerously for the Lord

2 Corinthians 5:1-5

Our Heavenly Dwelling

[1] For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. [2] For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, [3] if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. [4] For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. [5] He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

We understand our time on this earth from a human perspective. Let us think more about eternity than our place and circumstances in this world. While we’re here, we need to be careful not to attached to this world. Prosperity tends to do this. God know what each of us needs to draw closer to him. Everything that happens in our lives is part of his plan. Never forget this. Live dangerously, not comfortably, for the Lord each day. I have much room for growth in this regard.

“How valuable time is to us (Satan/demons) may be gauged by the fact that the Enemy (God) allows us so little of it. The majority of the human race dies in infancy; of the survivors, a good many die in youth. It is obvious that to Him human birth is important chiefly as the qualification for human death, and death solely as the gate to that other kind of life. We are allowed to work only on a selected minority of the race, for what humans call a “normal life” is the exception. Apparently He wants some—but only a very few—of the human animals with which He is peopling Heaven to have had the experience of resisting us through an earthly life of sixty or seventy years. Well, there is our opportunity. The smaller it is, the better we must use it. Whatever you do, keep your patient as safe as you possibly can.” C.S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters