Being "home"

Being home... What does that even mean? Yes, Valdosta is where I left from to go to Honduras, yes this is where my church home is at, and yes I am getting to see lots of friends and family while I am in Valdosta. But bouncing from couch to couch, invading people's houses and personal space, and living out of a suitcase barely sounds like home. I've also been told home is where the heart is and mine feels like it is split in 2 and in separate parts of the world. As discouraging as this sounds, as I thought about it I became encouraged. The encouraging part is that Jesus promised this!

In Luke 9:58, Jesus challenges a would-be follower by saying, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."

This verse reminds this would-be follower that the path of following Jesus is not easy or comfortable, THAT THIS WORLD IS NOT JESUS' HOME! and therefore as followers, NOT OUR HOME! That nothing is permanent or eternal in this world, it is all given to serve that HE may be more known. And when we focus our hearts and minds on heaven and being kingdom minded the things of this world, like having a place to call home, begin to grow strangely dim and fade away.

So my flesh could easily find a reason to pout in this. But this morning in church I was reminded of a verse, 1 Corinthians 10:31, that says, "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." and this verse checked me. Everything we do has a motive, but is out motive rooted in serving and glorifying self or God? Thank yo Lord for conviction and I pray that it does not stop there but my conviction is turned into action that refines me inti the blameless daughter you are calling me to be.

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John 3:30