YOU'RE NOT HOME YET

You're Not Home Yet
"I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever." Psalm 23:6

Where will you live forever? In the house of the Lord. So what does that make your present house? Temporary accommodation. "Our homeland is in heaven" (Php 3:20 NCV). This explains the homesickness you've felt ever since your husband or wife died, you learned about the lump in your breast, or the spot on your lung, or when your family fell apart. The twists and turns of life have a way of reminding us - this world is not our homeland. We aren't fluent in its language. Its culture confuses our heart. Its stress disrupts our sleep. It promises much but delivers so much less.

But that's okay - we have an eternal address fixed in our hearts: "[God] has...set eternity in the hearts of men" (Ecc 3:11 NIV). But even though our eyes are fixed on heaven, for some of us the journey has been long, very long and stormy. We've been robbed of lifelong dreams. We've been given bodies that can't sustain our spirits, or spouses who can't tolerate our faith, or bills that outnumber our pay checks, or challenges that outweigh our strength - and we get tired. It's hard to see the city in the midst of the storms. The desire to pull over to the side of the road and get out, entices us. We want to go on, but some days the road seems so long.

Remember this: God never said the journey would be easy, but He did say the arrival would be wonderful! So trust Him. He'll get you home.

Soon the trials of the trip will be forgotten in the joys of the feast.