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Going Home
By Peace | July 2, 2008
Could not find the group photograph of all the grandchildren at the funeral of my grandparents, but I surprisingly found this photograph instead, my only possession of him…
Magical Number THREE
Holy is HIS NAME indeed. The date was 3rd March 1996. I had totally forgotten about this photograph and I never see myself or Richard in it. I wondered where am I. Perhaps I was taking the photograph for the group, but what about Richard? Totally forgotten already, but I am so glad I had one photograph of him, beloved Gregory Yong. And I always thought I don’t have any photograph of him. However, the deepest regrets is photographs of my confirmation at St Francis Church of Assisi. I don’t have any at all. Gregory Yong really looked so smart, so dashing on that day, with his hat, so nice, no one can fight with him.
Jesus says:
Do not let your hearts be troubled
Trust in God still and trust in me
There are many rooms in my Father’s house
if there were not, I should have told you
I am going now to prepare a place for you
and after I have gone and prepared you a place
I shall return to take you with me
so that where I am
you may be too.
His last words, according to a close friend, “Don’t pray for me. I want to go home.”
Blessed are those who have died in the Lord; Let them rest from their labours for their good deeds go with them.
The life and death of each of us has its influence on others; if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord, so that alive or dead, we belong to the Lord. This explains why Christ both died and came to life, it was so that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.
We shall all have to stand before the judgment seat of God; as Scripture says: Be my life — it is the Lord who speaks — every knee shall bend before me, and every tongue shall praise God.
It is to God, therefore, that each of us must give an account of himself.
The Second Letter of Paul To The Church at Corinth (5:1-10)
We know that when the tent that we live in on earth is folded up, there is a house built by God for us, an everlasting home not made by human hands, in the heavens. In this present state, it is true, we groan as we wait with longing to put on our heavenly home over the other; we should like to be found wearing clothes and not without them. Yes, we groan and find it a burden being still in this tent, not that we want to strip it off, but to put the second garment over it and to have what must die taken up into life. This is the purpose for which God made us, and he has given us the pledge of the Spirit.
We are always full of confidence, then, when we remember that to live in the body means to be exiled from the Lord, going as we do by faith and not by sight — we are full of confidence, I say, and actually want to be exiled from the body and make our home with the Lord. Whether we are living in the body or exiled from it, we are intent on pleasing him. For all the truth about us will be brought out in the law court of Christ, and each of us will get what he deserves for the things he did in the body, good or bad.
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