Our Heavenly Dwelling

5 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. 4 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
2 Co 5:1–5
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Our Heavenly Dwelling
God promises us a dwelling beyond this earthly life, a home not made with hands but eternal in the heavens. Here, in our earthly “tent,” we experience groaning, a longing to be clothed with our heavenly habitation. Paul describes this yearning as a natural response to the limitations and suffering we endure, a burden only fully understood through the cross of Christ. Jesus endured the ultimate “tent” of human frailty and bore our sin to the cross. Because of His sacrifice, we await the resurrection with hope, not fear. The Holy Spirit, our guarantee, assures us that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life eternal. God Himself has fashioned us for this purpose. In faith, we look to the cross as the proof of God’s promise, a reminder that we will be clothed in immortality through Christ’s redeeming work.