Recently, on TV, there was a report about children from the last couple of generations having a much shorter attention span because of sound bytes, video games and the short spaces between commercials.
Isn’t this really just our human condition? Aren’t we the same? We adults may not be spending time with a video game but we engage in our fads, don’t we? Do you sit and read for hours without a break? (Of course, we’d love to have that option!) Have you read the same type of books all of your life? Don’t we change literature at church periodically?
Some of us remained loyal to “Gunsmoke” (or now, the “Simpsons”) on TV for all of its 20+ years but most of us started watching something else after a period of time. We might have come back to it occasionally, but other things caught our attention. It just isn’t possible to focus on one thing exclusively. It isn’t how we’ve been made.
We read our Bibles daily but sometimes something pulls us away. We have to refocus and get back on track. In our lives things and activities are finite. They have an ending. We search for the next bright object. Often times we start looking for the next thing before we are finished with the current thing. God made us this way. We haven’t found Heaven yet.
We are ever questing for……, what? God created us to look for Heaven. He gave us a desire for the eternal. He has blessed us with many things, activities and people which are dim pictures of our real Home but our “final destination” was not ever meant to be this earth.
Our Loving Heavenly Father even gave us a way to get Home by giving us Jesus, whose perfect life and sacrificial death on Calvary has made it possible for us to leave our sins and enter that perfect place for which we were created. Because He took our sins that day, we can confidently enter Heaven.
Longing for Home, aren’t you?
Isn’t this really just our human condition? Aren’t we the same? We adults may not be spending time with a video game but we engage in our fads, don’t we? Do you sit and read for hours without a break? (Of course, we’d love to have that option!) Have you read the same type of books all of your life? Don’t we change literature at church periodically?
Some of us remained loyal to “Gunsmoke” (or now, the “Simpsons”) on TV for all of its 20+ years but most of us started watching something else after a period of time. We might have come back to it occasionally, but other things caught our attention. It just isn’t possible to focus on one thing exclusively. It isn’t how we’ve been made.
We read our Bibles daily but sometimes something pulls us away. We have to refocus and get back on track. In our lives things and activities are finite. They have an ending. We search for the next bright object. Often times we start looking for the next thing before we are finished with the current thing. God made us this way. We haven’t found Heaven yet.
We are ever questing for……, what? God created us to look for Heaven. He gave us a desire for the eternal. He has blessed us with many things, activities and people which are dim pictures of our real Home but our “final destination” was not ever meant to be this earth.
Our Loving Heavenly Father even gave us a way to get Home by giving us Jesus, whose perfect life and sacrificial death on Calvary has made it possible for us to leave our sins and enter that perfect place for which we were created. Because He took our sins that day, we can confidently enter Heaven.
Longing for Home, aren’t you?
