“God saw not only what we were- He was faithful in seeing what
we could become. He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious
blessing of becoming.” A. W. Tozer
Did you know that you were prewired for hope? There is a
restlessness in the human heart for something more than this world can offer.
As Augustine said, “You created us for Yourself, O God, and our
hearts are restless until they find their rest in You.”
As believers, our hope is built on a sure foundation, and that
is the hope of heaven. The apostle Paul spoke of faith that springs from this
hope: “For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all of
God’s people, which come from your confident hope of what God has reserved for
you in heaven” (Colossians 1:4).
It is a bit like the Golden Plovers. Native to Hawaii, these
little birds migrate during the summer to the Aleutian Isles, some 1,200 miles
away. There they mate and lay their eggs. Then, after their little fledglings
are born, they return to Hawaii. Even more amazing is that their little
fledglings, which are too young to return with their parents, fly to Hawaii
once they have grown a little. God has given them a homing instinct that makes
this possible.
In the same way, God has given us a homing instinct for a place
we have never been. We have never been to heaven, but we long for it, because heaven
is our home. C. S. Lewis calls it the inconsolable longing. This is what the
Bible means when it says that God has set eternity in our hearts (see
Ecclesiastes 3:11). Like the Golden Plovers, we have a heavenly GPS
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