<blockquote>1 Corinthians 5: 1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.</blockquote><br>The reason we are sometimes lonely even as Christians is that in some sense we are groaning inwardly. We are longing for something better. We are struggling with the results of the fall all around us as well as in us. Francis Schaeffer wrote about our being separated from God, from our fellow man, and from ourselves because of the fall. Even after we are Christians we still feel some of these things. We are not home yet.<br>Susan
