Now Hear This!
Theme of the Week: Taking the Long View
Grady Cothen
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
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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)
Adapted from Eddleman, Last Things (Zondervan, 1969) by permission
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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September/October 2002,Vol. 5,No. 5
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