Finding Home

“Home.”  The meaning of this word has changed for us over the last few years as we made our home… Read more Finding Home

“Home.”  The meaning of this word has changed for us over the last few years as we made our home in a foreign culture and again as we spent several weeks on the road in between homes.  When asked where home is for us, we tend to hesitate now before we answer.  Where is our home?

I can only imagine how Jesus felt as He left His heavenly home only to take up an earthly residence in a Bethlehem stable.  Not long after, He would have to flee to Egypt as a political refugee.  Eventually, He would settle in Nazareth for a few years only to set out on a nomadic mission at the age of 30.  Then, the Author of Life would make a temporary home in a dark, stony tomb before returning to glory at the right hand of the Father.

Some say home is where the heart is, and I guess that’s true if our hearts are set on heaven.  Though we may get glimpses of heaven on earth, we’ll never truly be at home until God once again makes His home with us — when He rights every wrong, ends every war, fills every emptiness, and wipes every tear from our eyes.  He’ll bring heaven to earth just like He’s always planned, and then and only then will we finally be…home.

As we reflect on the Christmas story during this holiday season, let us remember the God who left His home to rescue us.  May we show the same love to all those around us who are desperate to find home.  

“But our citizenship is in heaven.  And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.”   Philippians 3:20

“Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.”    John 14:23

“Truly I tell you,”  Jesus replied,  “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel   will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.”   Mark 10:29-30

“ In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God,  did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;  rather, he made himself nothing  by taking the very nature of a servant,  being made in human likeness, a nd being found in appearance as a man,  he humbled himself  by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.”   Philippians 2:5-11