JIM REEVES: THIS WORLD IS NOT MY HOME

What’s your all-time favorite album?

Ever green sounds of lyrics to my ears,

A performance orchestrated by a spirit man,

Just like the latest release of last night,

The sound that draws me closer to the celestial.

A countryside cowboy singer was he,

With a touch of heavenly burden before home going,

Just as if he knew is time was up,

He sang to my heart the need to prepare.

“this world is not my home” caught me at the corridor of self-will,

As my eyes were opened to the vanity of earthly accomplishment,

Just as Ecclesiastes puts it point blank,

All is vanity as the celestial home awaits all

Each time I listened to Jim singing,

I felt him standing by with a contagious smile,

But tears rolls down my chicks like a gorge,

Why he left earlier before my birth.

The track narrated the life journey of every man,

Through this world on the lane of temporal,

As the existence of everyone is but for a short moment,

After which the spirit is separated from the mortal body,

No permanent home for anyone here,

The need to prepare for the home above

Can never be overemphasized,

After our passage on this side of eternity,

A home definitely awaits all and sundry.

If all the good and the bad have a common home,

Heaven will be a replica of this sinful world,

But the King of heaven and earth is a righteous Judge,

He prepared separate abode for the good and the bad,

With a criteria of righteousness through Christ for the eternal home of rest,

And the unrighteous for the eternal home of damnation,

Jim can boldly say he was just passing through,

And that his treasures are laid somewhere beyond the blues,

So I sing along with grace, hope and love,

To be beckoned upon by the Angels at the golden gate,

As I cannot feel at home in this world anymore.

Friends and folks in this community,

Our times are numbered on this path of life,

Death is inevitable for all no exemption,

Should death meet us unprepared?

Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life”

If we must boldly wish to live in that

celestial home after our time here is gone,

The only way to the celestial abode is Jesus.

He has the redemptive power of salvation,

Through Him our unrighteousness are purged away,

Through Him our names are written in the book of life,

Through Him we have a sure passage to eternal life.

All we need to do is to acknowledge our sins,

We must confess all our sins to Jesus,

And we must accept Jesus as our Lord and personal Saviour,

With all humility and sincerity of heart,

Then we will be justified by faith in Christ Jesus.

That’s the key to the celestial home.

Then we can boldly join Jim Reeves to say,

“this world is not my home,

I am just passing through,

My treasures are laid on somewhere beyond the blues,

The Angels beckon on me,

From heavens opened door,

And I cannot feel at home,

In this world anymore “.

Jim Reeves my best artist,

My best album and my best track,

This world is not my home!

Hope to shake your hand by the crystal sea,

After my time is over here.