‘For this reason also we make it our aim (aspire), whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing to him.'

So whether at home in the body, or absent from the body, and present with the Lord, they make it their aim to be well pleasing to God. That is what is central to all life. Being pleasing to God. And their commitment to this while on earth is enhanced by their belief in the resurrection, and their dedication to ‘pleasing Him well' is strengthened by it.

Alternately ‘at home' might be thinking of heaven, with our present life as therefore being seen as absent from where we truly belong, as 2 Corinthians 5:8 might suggest.

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