Permanency

First and foremost, Happy Thanksgiving.

As we reach this holiday, and with Christmas rapidly approaching there has been a lot of talk about what everyone is thankful for.  And even as I sit in my living room in my apartment three and a half hours away from my family, I can't help but sending up thanks to God for everything I have.

I made the decision almost a month ago that I wasn't heading to STL for this holiday, and over the past month I've had many offers from the people here in Springfield to join them.  I think that alone is a huge reason to be thankful! Even though I'm not with my own family, so many people around have wanted to make sure that I was with a family.

So as well as being thankful for my own family (obviously) and for my friends who seem to be just like family I'm feeling incredibly blessed.  But I'm also reminded the reason for the holidays.

I sit here being reminded that this earth is not my permanent home, and for that I am also incredibly thankful.  God set me apart long ago to be called elsewhere after this life, and I look forward to the day where I can worship Him all the time.  So where is this blog going?

Nothing is permanent here on Earth, and for that I am also thankful.  We seem to look at permanency and be thankful for the things that are or appear to be permanent.  And the things that seem to not be permanent, as humans we find ourselves wishing they were.  However  I find myself in a place realizing the non-permanency of life makes me incredibly thankful.  Pain, suffering, hurting, sickness are all just here in this life, not in the next one.  In this thankfulness for the non-permanent things of life it makes me even more thankful for the ONE and ONLY permanent thing in this life...God. His love, and His promise are permanent, and it is something we can take refuge in.

Galatians 3:26-29

26 "for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise."