More than 45 years ago when I served in the Air Force, there was nothing I looked forward to more than going home. The little house I grew up in, the small town near where I lived, the people I had known for all of my short life, were all very familiar and special to me and I certainly missed it all.
There were trails through my favorite woods, my favorite swimming holes and fishing holes and that section of river that my friends and I loved to float in inner tubes on hot summer days.
The Old Saying claims that you can never go home again. And in a way there’s a lot of truth in that--at least in my case. The home I grew up in is now dilapidated and has been allowed to go to seed to the point that I hardly recognize it. The complexion and the people of my little hometown have changed to the point that I hardly recognize it or them. The old familiar trails, fishing holes and swimming holes are all on private property now, where myself and most others would no longer be welcome.
So, I don’t look forward to going home the way I used to. In fact, it seldom happens anymore as we have no family there any longer. But, I thank God that I have reached the stage of my life where there is a Home I’m looking forward to more than any home I have ever known. I have come to realize that I have never been truly home, or never will be truly home until I am there! And that has been the case my entire life. There has always been something missing, but it took me decades to realize that this world is not my ultimate home.
As the old song says, “I’m just a-passing through,” and I will not truly be home until I’m in the presence of my Lord. I will not truly be home until I dwell in the Home that He has built for me.
He has promised that He will not only go and prepare a place for me; but that it will be a place of no more tears, no more sorrows, no more death. No evil will dwell there and we will live in the absolute peace and contentment that we have all searched for our entire lives. It will be a place of complete perfection because the One Who is Perfection, Who is fully Holy, will dwell there with us.
God desires that all should be there. Jesus did all the heavy lifting on the cross. We simply need to accept His free gift of Salvation. And, He told us the way when He said: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me!”
Now more than ever I truly look forward to Home and it is my sincere hope and prayer that you will be my neighbor there.
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