Tag: healing

This World is not our Home

“For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come. Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name.” Hebrews‬ ‭13‬:‭14‬-‭15‬ ‭NLT‬‬

The World Today

Welcome to 2026.  On the world stage we have advanced technologies, geopolitical conflict, economic instability, and job uncertainty among other global issues.  Warfare of all kinds are compounding, yet we remain vigilant and circumspect, redeeming the time. 

Our Hopes and Dreams

This world, although filled with our hopes and dreams, is not our home. Our wants, needs and deepest desires are a partial, imperfect, fragmented, dimly lit vision of what’s to come, and does not compare to the divine reality of what’s to come in the joy of our future home with God.

The Future Vision

In this world we are witnesses for Christ, sharing the truth and persevering in faith in a broken world.  And as we live out our lives in Christ in the here and now we look forward to the future vision of what’s to come in a new heaven and a new earth. 

Our home is with God in a new heaven and a new earth.  A place where there is no more suffering. No more death, sorrow, or pain. Where perfection is restored and creation renewed. Our eternal home. God’s dwelling place. This is where we reside, in the culmination of future health, healing and everlasting peace. 

Tree of Life

“I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.” ‭‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭5‬ ‭NASB

Healing, Protection, Everlasting life

From Genesis to Revelation, the Tree of Life stands firm and strong as a wonderful through line.  It brings to us a great mental image and great expression of the fullness of God through Jesus Christ.  

The Tree of Life is full of meaning of healing, protection, everlasting life, and abundance of God’s great love.  The Tree of Life shows us harmony and togetherness with God through the image of roots, vines, branches, leaves, fruit and more.

The Tree of Life is represented in Jesus Christ. His life, death, and resurrection is the offering of healing, protection, and everlasting life. Jesus Christ is the promise, given to us by our Father God, seeded in the conveyance of Abraham’s personal heartfelt faith, which intently grew into blessings for his descendants, and the promise continued through to all the nations of the earth grafted in.

Jesus Christ, the branch of David, leads us from sin and death in Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis through to everlasting life as the way to healing of the nations in the book of Revelations.

The Vine

We, now being like trees with roots, branches, leaves and fruit are called by Jesus Christ to remain in Him who is the vine.  He causes us to survive and thrive with the fruit of the Spirit. He invites us to this transformation. 

In the Garden of Eden, where we so innocently once walked with God in His presence, and having access to the Tree of Life lived forever in peace with God, there we came to find ourselves in the midst of radical change- the regenerative plan of salvation through Jesus Christ. 

And though distanced from the Tree of Life in the book of Genesis, we press on to what lies ahead, having access to this grace in which we stand- the bountiful grace of God- which blooms the Tree of Life.  Be covered, eat, and be transformed by the Tree of Life that in revelation heals the nations.