“Losing a Tent and Gaining a Mansion”

“Losing a Tent and Gaining a Mansion”
Not to worry. When it comes time for the Lord to take you home, that’s where He will take you. Jesus said, “In my Father's house are many mansions. . . . I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and [take] you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”

Spurgeon put it this way: “The best help to live for the present is to live in prospect of the eternal future. . . . All we can lose is the frail tent of this poor body. We are losing a tent and gaining a mansion.” “For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” 2 Cor. 5:1 NKJ

“The prospect of his heavenly home made his present trials seem very light; for he felt like a man who sojourns for a night at a poor inn, but puts up with it gladly because he hopes to be home on the morrow.”

“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” 2 Cor.4:18 Death is but “the removal of a tottering tent that we might enter into a permanent palace.”

John Quincy Adams also thought of death as leaving a temporary dwelling. When asked as an old man how he was doing, he replied, “John Quincy Adams is well, sir, very well. The house in which he has been living is dilapidated and old, and he has received word from its maker that he must vacate soon. But John Quincy Adams is well, sir, very well.”

The Apostle Peter used the same metaphor or picture of death when he wrote, “Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me.” 2 Peter 1:14

What a glorious gain it is to trade in this old dilapidated body of this flesh so that it will be “fashioned like unto his glorious body” Phil. 3:21 and to live in a more glorious place than you can imagine where “there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Rev. 21:4

And we will see “the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever. Rev. 22:1-5 ESV

And what a dwelling place for each child of God because “in my Father's house are many mansions.” John 14:2 And Jesus has gone to prepare a specific place just for you. “The Lord knows them that are His” and He knows everything about you so His choice for your dwelling place will be perfect. 2 Tim. 2:19 & Psalm 139