A Prayer about Being Homesick for Heaven

Heavenly Father, 

Loosen our grip on this world. 

Make us more like Paul, 

more torn between remaining on earth 

to share with more people

the good news of your grace 

and going to heaven to be with Jesus. 

In a word, grow in us a “homesickness for heaven,” 

as Derek W. H. Thomas describes it. 

Make us like Scottish pastor Thomas tells about. 

First Robert Bruce read Romans 8:38-39 aloud, 

“For I am sure that neither death nor life, 

nor angels nor rulers, 

nor things present nor things to come, 

nor powers, nor height, nor depth, 

nor anything else in all creation, 

will be able to separate us from the love of God 

in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 

Then he told his daughter, 

“I have breakfasted with you, 

but I shall have supper with my Lord Jesus Christ this night.” 

Make us ready, Lord, 

to go and have supper with Jesus.

In his inviting name. Amen. 

Read Philippians 1:18-26; Romans 8:35-39. 

Quote and story from Derek W. H. Thomas, Heaven on Earth: What the Bible Teaches about the Life to Come)