Our Real Home

"Whatever kind of tribulation we may suffer, this should always be our goal:

to learn contempt for the present life, and thus 

to be led to meditate on the life to come.

Because the Lord well knows our readiness to embrace the world with 

blind and even brutish love, he uses the very best means 

to part us from it and to rouse us from our lethargy,

so as to free our hearts from so foolish an attachment."

"It is appalling to think that many who boast they are Christians,

instead of desiring death, dread it so much that the very mention

of it makes them quake, as if it were the worst misfortune that could befall them.

It is not surprising if we feel unsettled and distraught 

when we hear that our body must be parted from our soul.

However, it is unthinkable that a Christian heart should be 

so lacking in light that it cannot overcome its fear by turning

to a higher source of comfort.

If we reflect that this bodily tabernacle which is weak,

flawed, corruptible, transient and decaying is dissolved and 

well nigh destroyed, in order to be restored to a perfect,

assured, incorruptible and heavenly glory, does not faith compel us 

fervently to crave what nature shuns and abhors?

When we remember that death calls us away from a miserable exile 

to our real home in heaven, how can we not find a

precious consolation in that?"

Quotes from "A Guide to Christian Living" by John Calvin ~

Pages 87, 101 and 102

With Love, Camille

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