Saturday, November 20

1For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

3if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.

4For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

5Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

6So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.

7For we walk by faith, not by sight.

8We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

9Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

57Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, 'Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.'

58And Jesus said to him, 'Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.'

59Then He said to another, 'Follow Me.'

60But he said, 'Lord, let me first go and bury my father.' Jesus said to him, 'Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.'

61And another also said, 'Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.'

62But Jesus said to him, 'No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.'