Home. People long to come home. Of course, the adventuresome types also enjoy exploring uncharted territories—it’s exciting to see new sights and sample new cultures. But even the pioneers among us have a need to find their way home.
Home was on our minds as we stuffed our stuff in boxes and then set out for Pennsylvania this week. The process of packing and uprooting reminded us of our need for home (not to mention our propensity to become all too attached to this life’s many “necessary” things).
The deep truth behind all this is that the Lord made us with a built-in homing device—he put “eternity in our hearts” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). And the present age is a pre-homecoming venture God has designed for us in which to learn to trust in him and spread his love.
Hebrews 11:13-16 reminds us that we are exiles and aliens on the earth—we don’t really belong here. Instead, believers seek a homeland, “a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city” (v 16).
Join me in praying that the enticements of this fleeting age would not captivate our hearts, but that deep down we would long to enter the fullness of joy in the perfect presence of Christ: to be truly home!
