During Christ's ministry on earth, He had no home. He once said, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head"
(Matthew 8:20). Those who for Christ's sake had given up houses and
lands and loved ones knew little of home life or home joys. It was as if
Jesus had said to them: "We have no lasting home here on earth, but my
Father's house is a home where we will be together for all eternity."
Amid
all the changes that sooner or later will come to break up the earthly
home, we have the promise of a home where Christ's followers will remain
forever. The Bible teaches, "Here have we no continuing city, but we seek the one to come" (Hebrews 13:14). The Bible says, concerning Abraham, that "he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God" (Hebrews 11:10).
Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, "Thus we shall always be with the Lord."
Our permanent home is not here on earth. Our permanent home is Heaven.
Sometimes when things do not go right down here, we get homesick for
Heaven. Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering and sorrow of this
life, there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with
anticipation. You may be lying on a hospital bed today, you may be
suffering from terrible disease or financial loss or bereavement, and
there is a tug in your heart. You are longing for home. You are longing
for Heaven.
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Prayer
Lord,
even now, we feel a yearning in our hearts for home—and nothing on
earth can quench it. Thank You for giving us the promise of an eternal
home in Heaven after we've walked through life with Jesus. We pray in
Jesus' name. Amen.
Scripture
quotations are taken by permission from The Holy Bible, New King James
Version, copyright ©1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers,
Nashville, Tenn. From Billy Graham: "Decision" magazine, March 2012,
©1996 BGEA.
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