610 We Have An Eternal House In Heaven, A Guided Christian Meditation on 2 Corinthians 5 1-4 with the Recenter With Christ app

610 We Have An Eternal House In Heaven,  A Guided Christian Meditation on 2 Corinthians 4:15-18 with the Recenter With Christ app   The purpose of this podcast is to help you find more peace in your life and connect with the true source of peace, Jesus Christ.  Outline: Relaxation, Reading, Meditation, Prayer, Contemplation and Visualization. Get into a place where you can sit comfortably and uninterrupted for about 20 minutes.You should hopefully not be driving or anything tensing or unrelaxing.  If you feel comfortable to do so, I invite you to close your eyes.   Guided Relaxation / Guided Meditation:   Breathe and direct your thoughts to connecting with God. Let your stomach be a balloon inflate,  deflate. Scripture for Meditation 2 Corinthian 5 NIV 1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life NKJV 5 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.  Meditation: One continual balancing act is comparing the value of improving the lives of those around us and also learning to embrace contentment. If we take radical contentment then we miss the opportunity to drive positive change. If we are obsessed with change then we are robbed of peace. Paul here is looking at that difference. The solution he presents is to focus on the thing that God does. God provides the bridge between improvement and peace.  If the tent we live in, our physical body, our surroundings, money, or any other physical things around us, if any of those things are our focus, we miss the peace offered by God. We can rely on the eternal house that God provides. One element of that is an eternal reward in heaven. That is directly connected to the transformation of spirit that Jesus offers us. Our home is heaven. We are visiting Earth. We temporarily loaned these physical bodies, our true eternal home is with God. It is in heaven, specifically because of the role of Jesus as our Savior. We are the prodigal son. As we embrace a heavenly perspective we can be inspired to make this earth more like that heavenly home. The improvement we seek should not be out of an obsession for this world but through a spreading of the spiritual completion of the spirit. In this way we can love, and share the Love we receive from God. God transforms us and we bring that transformation to the world and as such are the light of the world.  Meditation of Prayer: Pray as directed by the Spirit. Dedicate these moments to the patient waiting, when you feel ready ask God for understanding you desire from Him. Meditation of God and His Glory / Hesychasm: I invite you to sit in silence feeling patient for your own faults and trials. Summarize what insights you have gained during this meditation and meditate and visualize positive change in your life: This is a listener funded podcast at patreon.com/christianmeditationpodcast Final Question: If you consider the invitation and command to persevere in the faith, what change in your life does that bring to your mind?  FIND ME ON: Download my free app: Recenter with Christ Website - ChristianMeditationPodcast.com Voicemail - (602) 888-3795 Email: [email protected] Apple Podcasts - Christian Meditation Podcast Facebook.com/christianmeditationpodcast Youtube.com/christianmeditaitonpodcast Twitter - @ChristianMedPod