Do you decorate your tent?
“For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.” All that we have on this earth is a temporary dwelling. We are living in a tent. We are not meant to remain here forever, only until this world is renewed. So if the earth right now is not a home, but a tent, why do we decorate our tent? Do you install mahogany furniture and granite counter tops in a tent? Do you dress your tent with decoration and ornament? Do you have a room in your tent that you don’t use? This world in not out home. We shouldn't spend our time buying things for this world.

Think about the American Dream. Isn't it simply an attempt to make a tent into a home? Instead of storing up treasure after treasure in this world, we should store up our treasure in heaven. Your wealth here is temporary. Which would you rather do: use your money to feed the guy outside your tent that is starving or use it to install a new air conditioning system in your tent?

Are we home yet?
Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly home, because we know that when we are clothed in Christ, we will no longer be naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be naked here without Christ’s glory. We are waiting for this temporary world to be swallowed up by the Kingdom of God (Which is already here), where we will reign as kings and priests forever. God has fashioned for us this purpose, and He has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. Are you homesick? Open up your life to the Holy Spirit. God has given us the spirit to guide us home, to comfort us, to help us, and to help others find the way. We should be absolutely reliant on the spirit, not on our stuff. Is your life dependent on the Spirit? If the Holy Spirit left you, would anything change?

Therefore, because of the Spirit—God’s power in us—we are always confident. We know that as long as we are at home in this body we are away from the Lord. For we live by faith, not by sight. In a sense, believing is seeing, not the other way around. I would prefer to be away from this body and home with the Lord. But I know that God is not done with me here and He has put me here for a purpose. I am invincible in this body until God is done with me. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. In the end—which is really the beginning—we must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the good thing done in the body, whether good or bad. Perhaps the most sobering thought we can remember is that we will have to give an account of everything we did with our lives. The Father will ask us “Child, what did you do with all that I gave you?” Let me make this clear, what you do or don’t do matters. You are saved by Christ by no doing of yourself, but your sanctification does not end there. We are to become like the ones we will be at the end of this world: rulers of this earth once again, returning to our original purpose (ruling over the earth for the Glory of the Lord). Are you become the king or queen that the Father would trust to rule his creation?

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So if we are out here, what do we do in the meantime? Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. Do good deeds, so that others might see your life and praise God. If we are “out of our minds, as some would claim, then we are crazy for Christ. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that “one died for all, and therefore all died.” He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly view. You have never met an ordinary person; each individual is an eternal being.

If Christianity is true, then the individual is not only more important than a state, or nation, or civilization, but incomparably more important, for he is everlasting and the life of a state or a civilization, compared with his, is only a moment. –C. S. Lewis-

Though some regard Christ in the worldly view, we do not. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, He is a new creation: the old has gone and the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. We get to take part in God’s renewal of this world. With the Spirit, we can bring peace, healing, justice, grace, forgiveness, power, praise, and God’s glory here to this world. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors; God is making His appeal to the world through us! God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, that that we might take part in the righteousness of God.

In its simplest form: John 3:16. So let’s live and love as Christ did.