Daily Devotion Thursday, November 5, 2015
This week the inspiration for our Daily Devotions will be drawn from the sermon that I preached this past Sunday for All Saints' Day--a sermon on grief, loss, hope, life, heaven, Heaven and resurrection. If you would like to read the transcript of that sermon, you can click HERE . The Scripture that we used as our guide was John chapter 11--the story of Jesus raising of Lazarus from the dead. In his best-selling novel The Five People You Meet In Heaven , author Mitch Albom paints a beautiful portrait of the mission of heaven itself--as a place where we are given the gift of clarity. In heaven (or more accurately paradise), according to Albom's story, the whole of our lives suddenly makes sense. We get the chance to see how all of the dots connect. Eddie, the main character in the novel, has just died and enters paradise where he is met by the first of the five people he must speak to--a character known as The Blue Man. Albom writes:...