Christians Have One Life in Two Parts

We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord... We would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:6, 8

The life of a Christian is in two parts, and both of them are described as being at home. Right now you are at home in the body. That’s a description of life in this world. As long as you’re in the body, you’ll experience many pressures and struggles because this body is only a tent.

Your body may sag, it will wear out, and eventually, it will be taken down. And when that happens, you will be at home with the Lord. You will move from living “in Christ” and “by faith” to living “with Christ” and “by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7).

These two parts of a Christian’s life (life in the body and life with the Lord), are very unequal. To be with the Lord is better by far; it is incomparably better and unimaginably longer.

Imagine having a home in two places—two cities, two states, or two different countries. Although you have one life, that life is lived out in two very different places, and there is a continuity of memory and experience.

The same is true of your life as a Christian. You have one life. Your life begins here where you are at home in the body, and it will continue when you are at home with the Lord. You will know yourself to be there as much as you know yourself to be here.

Are you beginning to grasp the reality of having one life in two parts?