Every afternoon at 5, we are responsible for leading Chapel for the kids where each team (we are together as a squad this month) is responsible for leading on a different day. One day before the devotion, some of the children went up front and started to sing a song, singing how there were no orphans in the Kingdom of Heaven. This really struck a cord deep within me, as I knew that these kids didn’t have parents, but there is a difference between knowing it in your head and knowing it in your soul. These kids weren’t up there complaining about how they didn’t have parents or about their situation, they were singing and praising a proclamation of the knowledge that this is not their home.
Time and again I put my focus on the difficult situations around me, making life miserable, instead of focusing on the fact that this is NOT MY HOME. Everything I am seeing, right here and now, is so temporary as the Bible describes it as the passing of the wind.
Heaven is their home and they know that one day, they will have that loving Father who is better than any parent on this earth could even compare with. It took a group of orphans to really get me to realize that instead of focusing all my attention on my temporary situations, to instead keep my focus on the promises of my Lord.
My Father is in the Heavens
Peace
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