{"id":27753,"date":"2015-09-20T00:15:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T04:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27753"},"modified":"2015-09-19T21:57:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T01:57:37","slug":"building-429-where-i-belong-writers-jason-ingram-jason-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/20\/building-429-where-i-belong-writers-jason-ingram-jason-roy\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I Belong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Sometimes it feels like I&#8217;m watching from the outside<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sometimes it feels like I&#8217;m breathing but am I alive<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I won&#8217;t keep searching for answers that aren&#8217;t here to find<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">All I know is I&#8217;m not home yet<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> This is not where I belong<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Take this world and give me Jesus<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> This is not where I belong<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So when the walls come falling down on me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And when I&#8217;m lost in the current of a raging sea<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I have this blessed assurance holding me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">When the earth shakes I wanna be found in You<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When the lights fade I wanna be found in You<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/he32vwlKQPY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Building 429<\/em><br \/>\nwriter(s): Jason Ingram, Jason Roy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For this world is not our permanent home;<br \/>\nwe are looking forward to a home yet to come.<br \/>\nHebrews 13:14<\/p>\n<p>Picture this&#8230;you and your family are staying in a condo on the beach. \u00a0You love the view <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">so much<\/span> but the condo <em><strong>not<\/strong> so much<\/em>. \u00a0You don&#8217;t like the paint or the window treatments. \u00a0You really would want to replace the rugs and the bathroom tile. \u00a0Are you going to go to Home Depot and start a remodeling project? \u00a0Remember, you&#8217;re only there for a week. \u00a0Your home is actually somewhere else&#8230;this is just a temporary place for a vacation.<\/p>\n<p>This world, though we may like parts of it, is just our &#8220;vacation condo&#8221; and Heaven is our home. \u00a0We are here only for a bit; and, while we are here, our job is to lead others to Jesus and to invest in our Heavenly home. \u00a0We all find ourselves longing for the Home that He has promised when this world is so hard and comes at us from all directions. \u00a0What joy that can bring us as His children!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But our citizenship is in heaven,<br \/>\nand from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,<br \/>\nwho will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body,<br \/>\nby the power that enables Him even to subject all things to Himself.<br \/>\nPhilippians 3:20-21<\/p>\n<p>God created us to live here in this world that He created. \u00a0He gave us beautiful scenery that we can enjoy, sunsets and sunrises, mountains covered in snow and the white beaches with blue oceans crashing onto them. \u00a0That&#8217;s how much He loves us. \u00a0We don&#8217;t deserve any of it; yet He gave it to us. \u00a0He also gives us grace to cling to when we have done so much that we wish we could take back.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen this past week a teen lose her life to a horrible disease that she had been battling since the age of 14. \u00a0She left a legacy like you wouldn&#8217;t believe. \u00a0She made the most of this temporary home and she never took any of it for granted. \u00a0And now she is in her Home with Jesus. \u00a0But those left here are truly hurting and longing for the day that they will meet up with her again. \u00a0And I am sure they have many questions&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>God made us a promise that this world would be hard but that He would help us overcome it. \u00a0He sent Jesus as an example of how to do it and He gave us the Holy Spirit to help us. \u00a0So when it feels like you can&#8217;t go on one more minute, please remember that He is coming again and that we should finish this life strong and help others to do the same. Oh&#8230;and that condo that you&#8217;re thinking of remodeling while on vacation? \u00a0I wouldn&#8217;t spend too much on getting it perfect. \u00a0You can&#8217;t take it with you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Let&#8217;s pray<\/em>: Dear Jesus, thank You for going to prepare a place for us beside You in heaven! \u00a0Sometimes this world gets to be too much for us. \u00a0We stress and give up, forgetting that in a blink of an eye, You will be coming to get us. \u00a0Lord, we are so ready&#8230;but please help us while we are here waiting. \u00a0Help us to invest in those things that are going to benefit our Home with You one day. \u00a0Keep us from harm and thank You for loving us so much! \u00a0And for that family that lost so much this past week&#8230;we lift them up and all the others that have lost loved ones too soon. \u00a0Please give them comfort and somehow let them know that their &#8220;babies&#8221; are okay with You. \u00a0In Jesus&#8217; name, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it feels like I&#8217;m watching from the outside Sometimes it feels like I&#8217;m breathing but am I alive I won&#8217;t keep searching for answers that aren&#8217;t here to find All I know is I&#8217;m not home yet This is not where I belong Take this world and give me Jesus This is not where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[9426,1287,425,488,9430,589,9429,4932,9428,9427],"class_list":["post-27753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-building-429","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-heaven","tag-hebrews-1314","tag-kim-spring","tag-phillipians-320-21","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-temporary-home","tag-where-i-belong","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-7dD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27753"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27770,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753\/revisions\/27770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}