Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is. (I John 3:2 ESV)
Home and Love
It is rumored that long time pets begin to look like their family. (I might be offended by that concept, except my dog is better looking than me already.) Some science even indicates that husbands and wives take on physical characteristics of each other, both in appearance and behavior. And of course, children often look like their parents.
Home is powerful.
But I suspect that those transformations do not take place so readily in broken homes. Because it is love that causes us to imitate. It is love that allows us to absorb characteristics. It is love that lets us change.
And this will be true absolutely when we get to go home, to our Father’s place, to our Brother’s place, to our Kingdom home.
His love of us, and our responding love of Him, not only gains us access to Home, but that love will change us, sanctify us, repair us, transform us, and make us like Him.
Not merely in appearance, (although our bodies will somehow be LIKE His… Philippians 3:21) but more importantly, in our ability to love as He loves.
Coming home will do that for us.
Take the love God grants us.