Heavenly Anticipation!
"But if we wait expectantly for things we
have never seen, then we hope with true
perseverance and eager anticipation."
Romans 8: 25
Artist Norman Rockwell created the painting called
School’s Out for the 1959 Brown & Bigelow calendar.
It showed children running
and frolicking with joy as
they left school for the summer.
This was a popular theme for Rockwell as he released
several paintings on this theme. It makes us wonder if
he wasn’t reliving his own childhood days when the
school year ended and summer fun
began.
We should anticipate heaven the way children look
forward to summer vacation. When God created us,
He placed in our hearts a longing for Him and for
eternity. He gave us a hunger for heaven.
The reason we love breathtaking glimpses of heaven
now is because they remind us of how beautiful heaven
will be. We want to look ahead with “true perseverance
and eager anticipation.”
Ask God today to give you a focus for your eternal
home and think of ways you can reach out to others
who might need to know about the eternal home they
can have in Christ. Let’s build up one another with
heavenly
anticipation.
"When Christ calls me Home, I shall
go with the gladness of a boy
bounding away from school."
Adoniram Judson
