Part two of this blog deals with preparation mentality. (Again taken from Forever by Paul David Tripp) Preparation mentality is waking up each morning knowing that this world is not as it was meant to be. It is realizing that this is not our final destination and God is preparing another world for us. What he is preparing is a place where we are not broken and our world is not broken but for now we must understand our need for redemption.
"Living with preparation mentality also means living with the knowledge that God is using disappointments and difficulties of this world to prepare us for the next. He uses the pressures of the present to craft us into the kind of individuals that he would CHOOSE to spend eternity with."
That thought amazes me... God is forming me into the kind of person He would want to spend eternity with. "There are important character changes that grace needs to work in us to make us ready for our final destination. And God is using this present moment to produce in us sturdy hope. As by his grace we experience tastes of what is to come, we don't panic in the face of difficulty and disappointment, because we know God is moving us toward a place where suffering of this present moment will be no more."
I am a work of grace. The character changes in my life in the past 7 months have been all about grace and the work of Christ. I love the image of pilgrims traveling home. It's in the Old and New Testament. People setting up portable dwelling places along the way. "Your tent reminds you that you are not at your destination yet."
Keep on looking ahead
let you heart not forget
I know there will be a moment
I know there will be a place
when we will see our Savior
and fall into his embrace
so let us not grow weary
or too content to stay.
cause we are not home yet.
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