Waverly Church of Christ

Is there something in life which you want more than anything else? For the apostle Paul, there was. I believe he shared it with us in the text we examined last Sunday evening. It was what he called “an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison” (2 Corinthians 4:17b). As he told the Philippians in his letter to them, it was his “desire to depart and be with Christ” which he said “is far better” (Philippians 1:23). It is what I am going to call “an eternal longing.”  A thousand years before Paul would pen these words, the wise man Solomon had written that God has “put eternity” in our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11).  Deep down, in our eternal soul, there is a longing to be with God in that home of the soul of which we often sing.