It’s better to go to the house of mourning than the house of feasting (Future Grace #1 of 7)

Solomon tells us it’s better to “go to a house of mourning than a house of feasting” (Ecclesiastes 7:2). That is, something in looking at life soberly— from the vantage point of our humanity— shifts everything into perspective.

In this talk I launch a new podcast series— Future Grace.

The event that spawned the thought process behind it was the death of my paternal grandfather— years ago. I attended the funeral ceremony (at the funeral home) and was told that “He’s not here.” The pastor explained that “to be absent from the body is to be present with Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:8).

The implication was simple. His body is here, but he is NOT.

But then we attended the graveside service. There, the pastor told me something almost contradictory: “At some point in the future, the dead in Christ will rise,” I heard (see 1 Thessalonians 4:16).

I didn’t understand…

Was he there— in Heaven? Or was he waiting here… for some future-time in which he would arise…?

Thus began a quest to understand some of the concepts about this present NOW and how it relates to eternity. And, in the mess of it all, I stumbled upon a concept I refer to as FUTURE GRACE.

Though I unearthed more questions than answers, the exploration actually led me to a greater degree of certainty; You see, though we’re often afraid of the questions, God isn’t…

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Links

Take the free PTSD self-check = https://www.jenkins.tv/PTSD

Watch the healing video = https://www.jenkins.tv/blog/healed

The “Emotional Wholeness Checklist” video = https://www.jenkins.tv/blog/checklist