Our Aim is to please HIM! (2 Corinthians 5:4-9)

4 For while we are still in this tent, we sigh with anxiety; not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. 6 So we are always of good courage; we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.

We closed our lesson this morning at church with this passage of scripture. It is the explaination of why we suffer from anxiety. However, if our aim is to "Seek ye first His Kingdom and HIs Righteousness" then life is not really a problem. We can, in fact, be of good courage! The ultimate proof is Acts 2:38! No, it is not baptism. It is the "gift of the Holy Spirit" which is God's "guarantee"! What more could one ask for!