“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
Psalm 73:26
[We continue in the last days of this month to set our thoughts on heaven along with previous Anchor authors whose lives drew to a close during or after their writing.]
Each of us ought to wake up knowing this may be the day we leave earth and move on to our heavenly home. Do you long for that? I may face it more startlingly than you do because of cancer, but the truth of our lives ending is staring us all down.
Often, I’m tempted to dwell on how I thought my life would be. But God has led me down a different path than the one I’d always imagined. Some of you may be walking that path right along with me.
When the Lord presents you with one kind of trial or another, how will you answer Him? Jesus stood alone facing the cross and its shame. He asked the Father to take away the agony before Him if it was at all possible. Then in the same breath He said, “Yet not my will, but yours be done” (Luke 22:42). Look beyond the agony of this moment and know that the eternal weight of glory ahead is not worthy to be compared with your current suffering.
Each of us ought to wake up knowing this may be the day we leave earth and move on to our heavenly home. Do you long for that? I may face it more startlingly than you do because of cancer, but the truth of our lives ending is staring us all down.
Often, I’m tempted to dwell on how I thought my life would be. But God has led me down a different path than the one I’d always imagined. Some of you may be walking that path right along with me.
When the Lord presents you with one kind of trial or another, how will you answer Him? Jesus stood alone facing the cross and its shame. He asked the Father to take away the agony before Him if it was at all possible. Then in the same breath He said, “Yet not my will, but yours be done” (Luke 22:42). Look beyond the agony of this moment and know that the eternal weight of glory ahead is not worthy to be compared with your current suffering.
Scripture Focus
Psalm 73:21-26
Insight
Using some of her last strength, Kara Tippets miraculously finished writing this for the March 2015 Anchor. She passed on to heaven that very month.
Bible In A Year
- Judges 16-17
- Psalm 117
- 1 Corinthians 10