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[IMAGE] Picture of my parent’s house.
No longer.
Places we think of as “Home.”
A powerful word that evokes an avalanche of images and feelings.
At its foundation, home means security, peace, love, intimacy.
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.”
Perhaps one of the strongest instincts we have is to try to get “home.”
Trying to get home can mean involve different strategies.
Literally, going to a geographical location.
Recreating an environment that we loved.
Surrounding ourselves with people who help us feel significant and secure.
Home, in a sense, is a moving destination.
The old book title by Thomas Wolfe had become cliche and is true: You can’t go home, again.
Essentially, if we try to return to a place you remember from the past, it won’t be the same as you remember it.
Nevertheless, we strive to create or recreate whatever “home” means to us.
It is a never ending task.
All the while, we’re shaping our present lives on that picture of home and how we want to go there.
We Expect to Go Home
Everyone deserves a home with God.
We are confident that, just as Jesus is present “at home” with the Father, so will we be someday.
Paul reminds as well that we should expect to take someone with us.
But… It’s easy to be so focused on this world (one extreme) or the next world (the other extreme) that we are distracted from mission.
We Must Not Be Distracted
Getting home and taking others with us is mission.
It’s easy to get distracted along the way.
All the challenges we have serve to motivate us to get home.
We do our best to avoid losing sight of the goal.
Part of keeping the goal in sight is to realize that all the “bright, shiny” objects of the material world will not last, but the eternal home we long for will.
We Have a True Home
“For” = summation.
By contrast, we are in a “tent.”
An impermanent, incomplete dwelling.
It has value and purpose but it is not the our final home.
We will exist in a home designed by God.
The interim is difficult but not impossible and, in fact, serves a purpose.
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