My last several days have been filled with digitizing very old slides of visits to Disneyland, Sea World, Yellowstone and other memorable trips with two little boys. I noticed something. I couldn’t care less about the pictures of these places that do not contain one of my boys or my wife. I have some really pretty pictures of things and I don’t want to keep them. If I want to see pictures of those things I can find them on the web. What I want to keep are images of my most precious ever people. These are the pictures I want to Photoshop and turn into computer screen wallpaper.
My sons are grown men now with their own precious people. They have no idea how I feel as I look at these old photos. They will some day. I have come to think that God has some great photo gallery filled with perfect pictures of us at every stage of our lives. He has videos of our first steps and audio of our first words. I think He must really love the audios of our first memory verses.
With God it is all about family. That’s why Galatians 4 contains such meaningful verses. “God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.” This is what it has been about from the beginning. Adam and Eve were His children. He wants us to be His children and thus heirs; not tenets but owners of those mansions. Heaven is not a place to visit. It is HOME. There isn’t anything better than home.
Written by Roger Bothwell on October 28, 2011
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
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