“What a day!” Tina thought to herself, as she drove home from work. Tina was a high school teacher. Usually, teaching was a joy, but then sometimes there were days like this one had been. It started out on the wrong foot, when she overslept. She had been up late grading test papers. Way later than she should have been. To top it off, most of the students didn’t do very well on their tests. She took it personally when her students didn’t do well. She felt like she failed to teach them what they needed to know.
Her frustration had really come out when it seemed like some of her students didn’t care that they received a low grade. She yelled at her class, which she never did. One student got upset, and stormed out of class. Tina didn’t know where the student ran off to, but after class, she went to the Principal’s office, and told what happened. The Principal, Mrs. Larsen, told her not to take it so personal when her students didn’t do well on their tests. After all, she wasn’t a miracle worker.
This was another source of frustration for Tina. They were there to teach the students, so why shouldn’t they take it personal when a whole class doesn’t do well on a test. That meant, that for some reason the material wasn’t being effectively taught to the class in a way they could comprehend it.
As Tina pulled into the driveway of her home, she though of how it was a sight for her sore eyes, and how wonderful it was to be home. Her home offered her comfort, and peace. A place where she could be rejuvenated, to be ready to face another day.
This made her think of her heavenly home. If her earthly home was a place of peace and comfort, how much more would her heavenly home have to offer. In church on Sunday, Pastor Ross had talked about Hebrews 13:14-16. “For this world is not our home; we are looking forward to our everlasting home in heaven.” She also remembered remembered John 1:1-3, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you with me the you also may be where I am.”
This gave Tina a sense of peace, comfort, and anticipation, knowing that as much as she loved her early home, her joy was overflowing with the knowledge that she had a heavenly home that Jesus Christ was preparing for her.