Lord’s day blending meeting earlier this year in Grand Forks, North Dakota. – via Charis Condon
The reason we can love those whom we could never love naturally is that hope is being laid up for us in the heavens. If I had been the writer of Colossians, I would have said “because of the hope in the heavens.” Paul, however, inserted the words “being laid up for you.” This matter of hope being laid up for us in the heavens is actually very subjective. It has very much to do with our daily living. According to the context, the laying up of hope in the heavens has a great deal to do with how we live today. The more we love the saints, the more hope is laid up for us in the heavens. (Life-Study of Colossians, Chapter 2)
