The name of this blog is “run the earth, watch the sky” for a reason. God has entrusted me with 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for an unknown number of years to “run the earth.” He has given me certain relationships, gifts, abilities, opportunities, and resources to use not for my own fame and comfort, but to lift up His name, serve and obey Him, and honor Him as I enjoy the grand gifts He has given.

And while I am working and playing and serving, I am watching the sky. This life is not the end. Jesus has promised to come back for us, that He is preparing a place for us, to bring us to our true home where we will see Him face to face. Reading the two books that I posted reviews about today (Epicenter and Creation and the Second Coming) have the realities of Christ’s return for His Church and God’s impending tribulation judgements on the earth fresh in my mind.

I remember sometime in elementary or middle school sitting at my little desk in my room and writing a letter for someone to find after we disappeared in the rapture! I’m sure that sounds incredibly hokey to many of you reading this, but it was an expression of my deep faith that Jesus really was going to return for us someday and that many around us would be left behind and desperate for answers.

And now here I am 15-20 years later, sitting at my desk and wanting to write a letter for those who don’t understand, who will someday be left behind, who are facing the wrath of God against their sin.

Dear friends, this is real. I know that some of you will write me off as a lunatic right now, and that’s fine. But God has entrusted me with this platform to write, knowledge of His Word to share, resources to learn from and point others to, and I would be deeply remiss to not use it.

Hebrews 11:13-16 speaks of the heroes of the faith and says, “All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country – a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.”

This world is not my home. I’m looking forward to a my true home, the city God has prepared for those who love Him. I pray that you will join me there – what a day that will be! I love this song by Michael Card – I’m not a huge fan of all of these pictures (how can we do it justice?), but please take a few minutes to imagine the better country with me.