Moving Day

This is the time of year you see them on the road.
U-Haul trucks.
It might be moving college students back home.
It might be moving new graduates to their next location.

Moving day.
Depending on which direction you are going, it is either happy or a bit sad.
It is humbling to see most of your belongings in boxes.
It is amazing to see a lifetime of accumulated things, up to that point, inside a truck.

I pass U-Haul trucks on the road and I always wonder.
Coming or going?
Happy or sad?
Excited or wistful?

U-Haul’s slogan is: Your moving and storage resource.
We’ll store them or move them to your new place, anywhere around the world!
In theory, that is correct, if you’re thinking of the here and now.
In reality, there is one place a U-Haul truck cannot go.

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth. where moth and rust destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:19-21)

Boxed things, crated things don’t last.
Accumulated things here on this earth cannot be moved to heaven.
It is said that when we die, we should consider it moving day.
Moving from this life to the next.

No U-Haul trucks are necessary for THAT move!

We do not leave this earth with luggage.
We do not leave this earth with a U-Haul truck filled with our belongings.
We have no need for those things where we are going.
The most important thing is: Where are we going?

Where is that final destination?

Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we don’t know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:5,6)

We must trust in Jesus alone for our salvation.
Not in our good works, not in our accumulated possessions, nor in our status.
We must trust in Jesus alone!

That word above all earthly powers, no thanks to them, abideth;
The Spirit and the gifts are ours through Him Who with us sideth:
Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also;
The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still,
His kingdom is forever.
(A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, by Martin Luther)

Let goods and kindred go.
When this world is all there is, with no thought of eternity that is hard to do.
When this world is just a “passing through” place, we can easily let go of these things.
We know there is something much better than accumulating earthly possessions.

What do we bring to heaven if no U-Haul trucks are necessary?
We bring souls.
Those people who we witnessed to and shared the Gospel with, may be with us in heaven.
We will see those people who trusted in Jesus alone for their salvation.

We also bring music.
It is something we have been blessed with here and we will praise God with there.

Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mt. Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads. And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. (Revelation 14:1-3)

People and music will be the only things we have here that will be there.

Redeemed people.
People who trusted in Jesus alone for their salvation.
People who knew that U-Haul trucks do not accompany them as they move into eternity.
Songs that can only be sung by the redeemed will be sung.

Why do we waste so much time accumulating things we cannot bring with us?
Why do we try so hard to acquire those things that will rust and decay?
Why don’t we spend our time telling people about Jesus?
People who, through the power of the Holy Spirit, will come to faith in Jesus alone.

Those people will move from here to there.
Those people will not need a U-Haul truck either.
Those people will sing the song of the redeemed.

People and Music.
Earthly now; redeemed then.
The Song of the Lamb sung by His people.

Moving Day.
A day from here to there.
No trucks allowed.

 

2 responses to “Moving Day”

1. What a deep pleasure to know how real eternity is and to long for it with Jesus. It begins in this world but will never end in our true home. Thank you for this echo.

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   • You are welcome, friend!
     To spend eternity with loved ones and brothers and sisters in Christ…Oh, Happy Day!
     Gina

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