2 Corinthians 5:62CO 5:6

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"Whilst we are at home (present) in the body we are absent from the Lord."
We never think or speak of being absent except from our own home. After we have left the house of a friend, where we have been for a time on a visit, however at ease and at home we may have felt ourselves while we were there, we do not, after we have left it, talk of being absent from it: the friend's house is not our natural place as our own home is; and therefore we never speak of it thus. This then is what the apostle means in this passage, his thought is, that as long as we are here in the body, we are away from our true place, our destined eternal abode. The word" absent" here implies this. "We walk by faith, not by sight," by faith we realize it as a fact that we are here but for a little moment, and that soon we shall be "present" and not only so, but be "at home with the Lord." 1 Corinthians 4:88Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. (1 Corinthians 4:8). We belong not to this world, but to heaven, to God, to one who thinks of us as His absent ones, as we think of ourselves as being absent from Him.