Earthly House and the Hope before Us

While I am trapped in his body that does little of that I want it to I am reminded that I can still serve the Lord. I don’t think there’s any reward for self-pity so I do everything I can to avoid it. Thinking about the hope this before us definitely helps. Here are some verses I’ve been enjoying recently.

“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”
2 Corinthians 5:1-2, 5-6, 8-10 KJV