Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next.
God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom,
where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.
"Running aground," then is not the end of the world. (Read about the apostle Paul's voyage in Acts,
chapter 27, especially verses 23-26.) But it helps to make the world a bit less appealing. It may even be God's answer to "Lead us not into temptation" - the temptation complacently to settle for visible things.
Elisabeth Elliott
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