From Tent to Glory

Carrie Underwood Temporary Home

“Little boy, six years old A little too used to bein' alone Another new mom and dad, another school Another house that'll never be home When people ask him how he likes this place He looks up and says with a smile upon his face

"This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows in rooms that I'm passin' through This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this is my Temporary home."

Young mom on her own She needs a little help got nowhere to go She's lookin' for a job, lookin' for a way out 'Cause a half-way house will never be a home At night she whispers to her baby girl Someday we'll find a place here in this world

"This is our temporary home It's not where we belong Windows in rooms that we're passin' through This is just a stop, on the way to where we're going I'm not afraid because I know this is our Temporary Home."

Old man, hospital bed The room is filled with people he loves And he whispers don't cry for me I'll see you all someday He looks up and says "I can see God's face"

"This is my temporary Home It's not where I belong Windows in rooms that I'm passin' through This was just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this was My temporary home."

This is our temporary home

We live in a tent now.

2 Corinthians 5:1–5 NASB95

For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

We will live in glory

2 Corinthians 5:6–10 NASB95

Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by sight— we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

We better be ready

2 Corinthians 5:11–20 NASB95

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences. We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Lets Go Home

Are you ready to go home?

We have make Heaven our primary place of residence.

We have to be ready to go home asap.

“A life is not a happy one unless it is true, and it is not true unless it is eternal” Augustine, “On Life’s Pilgrimage” Serm. (Ben.) 346.1