This is something I wrote awhile back...when my grandmother was still alive..
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I was thinking about my 103 yr. old grandmother this morning.
I'm sure she relates to Paul.....Many times I have heard her cry out to God to let her die and go home to be with Him! She is indeed earnestly desiring it!
Obviously when Paul wrote II Cor., he was in "desperate straits" and despairing of life. It comes up over and over again....
Here in verses 2-4 he says,
"For in this we GROAN, EARNESTLY DESIRING to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:...For we that are in this tabernacle do GROAN, being BURDENED: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon...."
And I love his last phrase there....
"...That MORTALITY MIGHT BE SWALLOWED UP OF LIFE."
In verse 8 he says he was "willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."
This is where my grandmother is right now!
Groaning.....burdened.....earnestly desiring to see death that will instantly become LIFE, real life...and no more pain! With the Lord forever!
Just meditating on this today....
And remembering when I was sick EVERY DAY for days and days, week after week, month after month, year after year!
With pain like that, heaven is something that you begin to "earnestly desire"!
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