For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. (Hebrews 13:14 ESV)
Home and Faith
I have moved approximately fifteen times, and somehow God has granted me the ability to feel at home almost immediately. Yet I do not envy the life of a pilgrim, a viking, or a wagon-trailing pioneer. Home is too precious, the familiar is too comfortable, the known is too familiar.
Lately, our society has been shifting. And sometimes it might seem that we have left home… or our home has left us. And that can be frightening.
But our real home has not been lost. Our home, in one sense, is yet to come. A perfect home, a loving home, an exciting home, a home in Christ’s presence, a home of peace. When we feel lost, look forward to that home.
Our knowledge of that home is based on what God has done long ago. Before God even put the first, foundational atoms of this universe together, He knew us… He loved us… and declared our home is with Him! (Ephesians 1:4,5)
Our home is found, therefore, in faith.