Life is fragile, this I know, for my body is weak and my destination distant. Hope comes because of the light shining forth from my destination, for it is as a great city in the night calling out to all who belong there, yet many unseen snares and pitfalls lie between the traveler and his destination. Then I remember, looking down I see that same light also lives within me and in the distance I can see other small individual lights, all converging in the same place. Now even though my footsteps are taken in darkness my path is sure and my balance is secure because of this one thing – my relationship with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. What do I have to fear? For either He will lead me so I know where to step or He will carry me but either way my home He has promised and I have no doubt He will take me there. Though these unknown dangers await the unsuspecting traveler they cannot touch the spirit for I know to enter that city this weak and fragile body must first be laid down. Though I would rather lay it down at a time of my choosing, really what does it matter if my spirit remains in Christ? But care must be taken because fear can cause the heart to turn away from the deliberate path Jesus illuminates. In this journey each citizen must turn away from fear so that their spiritual eyes do not grow dim and they lose their way, for the night has swallowed all who has turned from Jesus. For He is the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Jesus.
In Jerusalem, the LORD of Heaven's Armies will spread a wonderful feast for all the people of the world. It will be a delicious banquet with clear, well-aged wine and choice meat. There He will remove the cloud of gloom, the shadow of death that hangs over the earth. He will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign LORD will wipe away all tears. He will remove forever all insults and mockery against His land and people. The LORD has spoken!
(Isaiah 25:6-8 NLT)
And people will come from all over the world—from east and west, north and south—to take their places in the Kingdom of God.
(Luke 13:29 NLT)
