I was on my internet Christian faith board and one of the posters said that she would be gone for a while since she was “going home”. This poster is married with children but going home to her meant going home to her parents. Isn’t it strange that when we think of home, we often think of mom, dad, and the security of their love? It’s like giving you a warm fuzzy hug.
When Christ spoke of home, He was talking about going home to His Father as well. He is now preparing a place for us to reside when we go to live with Him. When you think of heaven, do you think of it as a place of refuge, a place of love or do you fear that home? The Bible talks about heaven as a place of perfect peace and love without any worries or sorrow. Now that’s the kind of place I want to call home!
Sometimes, when we think of dying, we hate to think that we will have to leave our earthly home. In actuality, this place that we think of as “home” is not the home we should desire. I know there are many who think of their earthly home as a place of bitterness and grief but take heart. In I Peter 2:11, we are referred to as strangers and aliens in this world. An alien is a sojourner, one who is not affiliated with the world but just passing through. If we understand that what we call “home” only is a temporary dwelling place, then our heavenly and eternal home becomes all the more desirable. I know that when the Lord calls my name that I will be “going home” and will rejoice in being there!
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This is a great blog entry, Linda!! And yes! What a wondrous day that will be.
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally, our morning class leader taught on "going home" this past Sunday. You too are of the exact same thought. :)
He gave us the thought that yes, we can "go home," but on this earth we can't go "BACK home"....when we go home so much has changed there and so have we. We can GO home but can't go BACK home[his illustration was from Luke's writing about what we call "The Prodigal Son" .... he wanted to go home, but his plans were to go home as a servant, not as a son .... he couldn't go back home, just home
We are the exception to that rule - we are away from home while here on earth,but we will go BACK home when we return to the Father - the Father that is never changing, the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Amen! \o/