Ep 78: You Can't Beat the Company

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Hey, good morning.
I'm Daniel Dalp and this is for

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your Sunday Morning drive, the
short podcast with the goal of

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providing some motivation, some
drive and encouragement on your

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way to worship and helping you
recenter your mind on those

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spiritual things on a hectic
Sunday morning.

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Before we get started today, I
wanted to share with you that I

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was recently a guest on the Road
Trips podcast hosted by Tyler

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Wall.
We discussed the very relevant

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topic of rage culture and the
complexities of dealing with

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anger.
If you would like to listen to

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that conversation, I've linked
to it in the show notes of

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today's episode.
Make sure you check out Rd.

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trips and the great work that
Tyler is doing.

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Let's go ahead and get the show
on the road today.

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This is episode 78.
You can't beat the company.

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Let's go to church.
Are we there yet?

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I love a good vacation, and as I
told you last week, I recently

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returned from one.
And you know, vacations hit me a

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little different as a preacher
than they used to before I

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stepped into the pulpit every
Sunday.

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And you know, I love what I do,
but sometimes it's good to take

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a break and be fed every once in
a while instead of doing the

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feeding.
And at the end of my vacation, I

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was blessed to do just that.
And I got to sit down and

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worship next to my family and
hear one of my favorite

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preachers, my good friend David
Rogers.

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And it was somewhat
serendipitous because at the

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beginning of his lesson, he was
using vacations as an

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illustration.
And he said something that

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really rang true to me.
And, well, I'll let him tell you

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himself.
Here's what he said you.

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Know most people I've talked to
said these were amazing places

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to go.
These were fantastic vacations.

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Why?
Well, because I don't have to do

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something.
Or because I get to do

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something.
Really, what it gets to it.

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A lot of it is because of the
people I get to be with.

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Thanks Rogers, and just a side
note, I've stolen this concept

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with his permission anyway, he
continued his thoughts by

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relating that what makes the
church so great is the people

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that it consists of and that
ultimately will fill heaven.

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What makes it great?
The people that we get to be

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with the company.
And that got me thinking yes,

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about my recent vacation and
that it was indeed wonderful

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because of the family and
friends that shared it with us.

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But mostly about heaven.
I can't wait to get to heaven

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for the same reason that I can't
wait to get to church on Sundays

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because some of my favorite
people will be there, but even

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more so because of God to be in
His presence.

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My thoughts also turned to the
other aspects of a vacation that

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we generally look forward to.
Rest and relaxation.

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Friends, there will be no
greater rest than that of

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heaven.
Matthew chapter 1128.

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Jesus describes the rest that
can be found in him to me, all

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who are weary and burdened, and
I will give you rest.

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Maybe we think of the newness of
a place that we've never been.

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Revelation 21 verse 4 sounds
like a newness that I'd like to

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experience.
It says, and he will wipe away

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every tear from their eyes, and
there will be no longer any

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death.
There will no longer be any

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mourning or crying or pain, for
the first things have passed

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away.
And another aspect of heaven

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that we can rejoice in is that
it's not a vacation.

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You see, a vacation implies
something temporary.

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Heaven is eternal.
Imagine that in heaven with our

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brethren and God forever.
Hard to imagine, sure.

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Exciting, absolutely.
John 14 verses 2 and 3.

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Jesus is comforting his
disciples and he tells them the

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following.
In my Father's house are many

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rooms.
If that were not so, I would

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have told you, because I am
going there to prepare a place

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for you.
And if I go to prepare a place

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for you, I am coming again and
will take you to my so that

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where I am there you will also
be.

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He's going to prepare a place
for them, a place with unlimited

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vacancy.
Vacancy, by the way, that we

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need to try our best to fill
even as impossible as that might

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be.
But he's coming back.

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He's coming back to take us to
that place.

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And, you know, that's a trip
that I don't want to miss out

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on.
And I'm going to do my best to

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live my life in a way that
assures me that I won't because

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I can't wait to get there.
And you know, I've heard heard

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that you can't beat the company.
Well, those are my thoughts for

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your Sunday morning drive.
Now it's time to hear yours.

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Our discussion questions for
this week are, are we living our

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lives in a way that we are
assured of our home in heaven?

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Do we fully appreciate the
temporal nature of this life and

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its problems compared to the
eternity of heaven?

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And who is someone that you want
to see in heaven?

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What can you do to help them get
there?