My Time at the Inn

  Image result for this world is not my home free image        The title of the blog has changed to "My Time at the Inn."  Luther once said, "The world is a den of murderers, subject to the devil.  If we desire to live on earth, we must be content  to be guests in it, and to lie in an inn where the host is a rascal, whose house over the door this sign or shield, "For Murder and Lies."  While visiting our  son in Texas last summer, his pastor's  Sunday school lesson was on that quote.  The pastor said  that we are merely strangers in this world, and we should view it as though we are on a pilgrimage, and we are staying at Inn filled murderers and liars.  That message resonated with me these last few days, and I thought that I had  a wrong title for my blog.

I get too comfortable with the world, and along comes God and gives a trial whereby I must face my sin.  Has that ever happened to you?  It's too easy for me to get comfortable here.  Perhaps that's why God sends along the uncomfortable trials, so we can face ourselves and find forgiveness.   Yet thinking how this world will pass away, and  seeing all those material things that I love a little bit too much will be gone, the hope of an eternity with Jesus, makes living in this "Inn" bearable.

Whatever you may be going through, it will have an  end.   Living at this Inn  where the murderers and liars are, can sometimes cause doubt.  Maybe we don't feel God  loves us, or that he doesn't hear us when we cry  to  Him, but faith doesn't rest on feelings.  Sometimes we  just have to say, "Lord, I don't feel your  presence,  but I know you are here because you Word tells me you are, and I believe, Lord, help thou my unbelief.

Colossians 3:1-2English Standard Version (ESV)

3 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

This world isn't home, we are just stopping by  an Inn on our way home.

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