“Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to him.” (v. 9)

How often do you think about heaven?

About the pure worship we’ll offer there? About His elect from all the nations, united in everlasting song? About the joy that flows when tears have ceased?

How often do you think about heaven—and the glory of God, who is pleased by it all?

The mercy of Christ carries us there—home!—where we will please Him for all eternity, by His grace.

There’s just one problem:

We’re not home yet. We’re away, in the flesh, on this earth.

And worship here—the life of pleasing Him—is harder.

Yet we aim for it with all we’ve got. We pray. We sing. We give. We repent. We proclaim. We love.

We depend on His grace to guide is into the God-pleasing now, by the Spirit, knowing that the “away” season isn’t forever. It matters, but there’s more.

Look forward, yes. And live for Him now.

— Tyler