Lent daybook, 23: a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens

My Lent daybook for these 40 days of prayer. Join me, won't you? (see previous Lent daybook 2016 posts here)

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look

Abandoned farm house turned life size doll house on the Canadian prairies

Heather Benning

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read

2 Corinthians 4:16-5:5 

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 

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. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. 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. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

all readings for the day: Psalm 32; Joshua 4:1-13; 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:5

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pray

• Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (source)

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listen

Psalm 46 (Be Still) by Bifrost Arts

( I invite you to listen with me to my ever-evolving Lent playlist & Lent Spirituals playlist )

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do

Take a nap today. Thank God for the restorative power of sleep. Be still and know that he is God. Rest in that knowledge.

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(see all Lent daybook posts from 2015 here)