Bound For Canaan Summary
reading a book entitled, Bound for Canaan, a book that details that narrative history of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a secret network of routes and safe houses that led escaped slaves from the southern united States to free states as well as to Canada. Ithis book, I read of an enslaved people, striving and desiring freedom, wanting it so bad they were willing to risk anything to obtain it. I read of the abolitionists who saw the evil and atrocities displayed on a captive people and desired freedom for them, that they themselves were willing to risk their own lives, reputations and freedom. As I ponder upon the 100,000 slaves who met their freedom using the Underground Railroad, I think then of you and I as Christians,
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It's a place where sorrow and pain will be eliminated (Revelation 21:4), righteousness and godliness encapsulates it (2 Peter 3:13) and it's eternal, not bound by the constraints of time (2 Corinthians 5:1). The descriptions of heaven in Scripture paint such a beautiful picture that it is at times so hard to imagine living in this world that is the exact opposite. Why would I settle for living according to a world that is dominated by Sin? Are you willing to do whatever it takes, not settling for this world, but to obtain all that heaven is? The escape route from this world's problems, from this world's darkness and sorrow is found in the word of God. It's found in living your life according to Christ and his example. Heaven is not some Fantasy neither is it a figurative place but a real place where all of life's real issues are no more. those that traveled through the Underground Railroad did so with the intention of being rid of oppression, the hardships they dealt with, and tasted the beauty of freedom. their desire, their will, and their goal is what helped them travel a long, trial filled, road. but they knew at the end lied their hearts desire. If heaven is your heart's desire, than don't allow anything to stand in your way as you travel through this world to get
It's a place where sorrow and pain will be eliminated (Revelation 21:4), righteousness and godliness encapsulates it (2 Peter 3:13) and it's eternal, not bound by the constraints of time (2 Corinthians 5:1). The descriptions of heaven in Scripture paint such a beautiful picture that it is at times so hard to imagine living in this world that is the exact opposite. Why would I settle for living according to a world that is dominated by Sin? Are you willing to do whatever it takes, not settling for this world, but to obtain all that heaven is? The escape route from this world's problems, from this world's darkness and sorrow is found in the word of God. It's found in living your life according to Christ and his example. Heaven is not some Fantasy neither is it a figurative place but a real place where all of life's real issues are no more. those that traveled through the Underground Railroad did so with the intention of being rid of oppression, the hardships they dealt with, and tasted the beauty of freedom. their desire, their will, and their goal is what helped them travel a long, trial filled, road. but they knew at the end lied their hearts desire. If heaven is your heart's desire, than don't allow anything to stand in your way as you travel through this world to get