Breaking From Camp!
"We would rather be away from these earthly
bodies, for then we will be at home with the
Lord."
2 Corinthians 5: 8
Paul was a tentmaker, which means he carefully measured and
cut sheets of leather, stitching sides and tops, waterproofing the
fabric, and crafting the wood for the frames.
He was surely proud of his work, and his tents probably brought
a premium price. Still, it was just a tent. Not a house. Not a
castle.
Not a palace. Just a portable, temporary dwelling.
“That’s what my body is too,” Paul must have thought to himself.
“But when this earthly tent is destroyed, God will move me into a
resurrected, glorified, eternalized body that will be as superior
to this one as a palace is to one of my tents.”
Perhaps Paul conceived this comparison while making tents in Corinth
with Priscilla and Aquila (Acts 18:1-3): “When this earthly tent we live in
is taken down (when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a
house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not
by human hands” .
In this life, we’re only camping out.
Our real home is ahead of us!
"Death…is losing a tent
and gaining a mansion."
Charles H. Spurgeon
