I continue to think about living as someone waiting for the kingdom of heaven. I recalled the quote by C.S. Lewis that, when I first heard it, oddly comforted me. I think about this quote so much, especially when the holidays leave us a little sad. He wrote this: “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
I kept thinking of us as made for “another world” as I turned to my book on prayer by W. Duewell. In a section about sacrifice and self-denial in order to follow God, Duewell describes the day John Wesley visited a wealthy man’s home. He describes that Wesley, “while being shown through a nobleman’s house, admired the expensive works of art and other symbols of wealth and culture.” Wesley said this: “I too could love these things, but there is another world.”
There is another world. Do we really believe it?