Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us.

Give more as you make more. Remember: God prospers us not to raise our standard of living, but to raise our standard of giving.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the first time.

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.