Camarie Weeks’s Reviews > Remember Heaven: Meditations on the World to Come for Life in the Meantime > Status Update

2. Do we believe our future matters to us more than it does to God? (Feeling pressure of responsibility-that it’s on me to provide or protect what I love) Remember that our Father did not spare his own Son but freely gave him up for us all. Everything we encounter is from “the hand which was once nailed to the cross for us” and none of those things will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ.

“Applying hope - how to draw on the hope of heaven to relieve anxiety in the meantime. Two questions to help diagnose:
1. Are we more attached to what is possible than to what God has promised us? (More attached to what we can lose than to what we can’t.) Remember we are born again to a living hope, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for us.”
to be continued…