Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Now Hear This! Theme of the Week: Taking the Long View Tuesday, October 8, 2002
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September/October 200255Now Hear This!Theme of the Week: Taking the Long View Now Hear This! Theme of the Week: Taking the Long View Tuesday, October 8
Key Bible Verse: Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will give us later (Romans 8:18). Bonus Reading:Romans 8:19-25
At the end of World War II, I was on an assault transport docked in the Philippines. Scuttlebutt said we were to go to England—or to Hong Kong or Japan—or home. The ship's lines were cast off, the boatswain's pipe shrilled, the public-address system said, "Now hear this! This is Captain A. B. Leggett. We've received orders to proceed by the double circle route to … Uncle Sugar—the United States."
A jubilant shout went up: "We're going home!"
As we steamed out past Corregidor Island, the hell of Okinawa and Iwo Jima was behind us—the long night watches, the general alarms, the mine fields, the tense moments of identification of aircraft, the eternal waiting—all began to fade. Now dehydrated eggs and potatoes didn't taste so bad as they had!
Then finally, the Golden Gate Bridge, seen through the thinning fog, looked like the "gates of Glory." The gang—plank hit the dock, and we stepped ashore. In sheer joy we bought more candy than we could ever eat—just because candy could be bought. We bought more flowers than anyone could ever wear—just because there was a land left that grew them. We looked, laughed, and privately wept—home, wonderful home!
—Grady Cothen in Last Things
My Response: Have I ever felt "homesick" for heaven?
Thought to Apply: A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not … escapism … but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.—C. S. Lewis (British scholar)
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