I was sitting on a hillside and enjoying the sunset. I began to pray. I do not even remember what I was praying about when the prayer began, but after a little while I just started to pray about the places where I have lived. I was not complaining. I was just talking to God about how I have never really found a place I could call home. There have been a few places that I really liked, but something has always come up that made it necessary to move on.
That is the way it is in our modern world. Mobility expands the opportunities that are available to us, but I have never really been able find a place to call home.
If we listen when we pray, sometimes God answers back. I don’t hear a thundering voice from heaven or see a blinding flash of light. I just get a feeling, a blessed assurance as the Holy Spirit moves me. There on the mountainside God gave me a sense of peace, and I understood that He wanted me to know that He has a home for me. It is a place where I will be able to know the happiness that comes from being with Him … forever.
Jesus said:
‘Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you;
for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again and receive you to Myself,
that where I am, there you may be also.
And you know the way where I am going.’
Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we do not know where You are going,
how do we know the way?’
Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life;
no one comes to the Father but through Me.’ (John 14: 1-6 NASB) (1)
‘I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,
and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?’
(John 11:25-26 NASB) (2)
Our bodies will die. Then, that part of us that is not physical, our soul and spirit, will instantly be with Jesus in heaven. (2Corinthians 5:6-10) When the resurrection of our bodies happens at the Rapture, our soul and spirit will be reunited with an immortal resurrection body to remain forever with the Lord. (1Thessalonians 4:13-18, 1Corinthians 15:42-44)
Do you believe this? If you haven’t already, believe in Jesus today. Your true home is waiting for you. All you have to do is enter in.
(2) Ibid.
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