Linked Together: With God

On the Other Side
What awaits the believer after death? Kevin DeYoung writes:

In trumpeting the good news of cosmic renewal let us not lose sight of the hope that anchors the believer in hard times and is the reality awaiting us on the other side of suffering and death: we really do go to heaven when we die.

Read Away from the Body and at Home with the Lord.

In a Beetle’s Hole
Here’s a post on the same subject as my post yesterday at Out of the Ordinary, and starting with the same child’s question, too, explaining why it’s important for us to understand that God is present in a dung beetle’s hole (Aaron Denlinger).

Everywhere That We Can Be

It’s been a busy day and until now I’ve had no time to tell you that I posted at Out of the Ordinary this morning on the omnipresence of God.

“Where is God?” The best I could do when my small children asked this question was answer, “He’s everywhere, but you can’t see him or touch him or hear him.” This, of course, leads to more questions: How can a being exist that we can’t see or touch or hear? And how can something be everywhere? (I have no child-sized answers to those questions. I’m not sure I have adult-sized answers, either. How could a finite mind hope to explain the infinite and incomprehensible?)

Read the whole piece on this perfection of our infinite God.

Thankful Thursday

Today I’m thankful 

• for the hope of a day with the grandchildren tomorrow. They usually spend Wednesday with me, but the three-year-old was sick then, so they all stayed home. I missed them. But if everyone’s well enough tomorrow, they’ll come tomorrow.
• for my oldest grandson, who turned two last week; for all his boyish cuteness and energy.
• that my son made his flight this morning. It was a near miss.
• that I got everything finished that I needed to do today despite many interruptions. That could only happen with God’s help.
• for the hope of a good night’s sleep tonight after interrupted sleep last night.
• that God is present wherever I am.

Also thankful today:

• Kim Shay
• Persis

What are you thankful for?