Here’s Laurel and me driving through Kansas to my folks
Scripture
…They were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. Hebrews 11:16
Observation
What is it that opens the door of opportunity in life? What is it that keeps us moving forward into new discoveries of God’s hidden plans for the next step of our life?
The answer is found in the magnetism of heaven. If I am prepared to see all of life as transition and my only permanence in being with the Lord forever in heaven, then step by step my longing for that city will keep me moving from responsibility to responsibility until I get home.
It’s just like any human journey. Tomorrow I’m driving to my parents’ house in central Kansas. It will be a seven hour journey from Denver to their brick house under the oak trees of a wide street of a Midwestern town. I’m 45 years old.I left home 24 years ago. Why do I go such long distances to see the folks again? Because within me is the desire for home.
If I can take that little human experience of the homestretch and apply it to all of life I can understand. I’m on the way to Father’s house.Supper is waiting. The family is gathering.I’m on my way home.
That desire for home with the Lord is what makes him ever so proud of us. The Lord is like any parent. He loves it when the kids remember to call and when they come back to visit. Parents know their grown children live busy lives, so when there is time for homecoming that is a special gift. Like a parent sending gas money or cashing in frequent flyer miles, so the Lord gives us whatever we need to get home.
Application
Instead of seeing life as disjointed experiences we should see it as links of a chain being tugged homeward. Today’s opportunity and decision leads to tomorrow’s habitation.
Along my journey to my parents’ home tomorrow I’ll drive through some lonely stretches of wheat stubble. I’ll pass the time by counting mile markers and grain silos. All of those things will seem like ordinary things that I will wish away to get where I’m going.“ Are we there yet?”
But remove any segment of the road and I fall short of home. So every life event is part of the journey. The road makes me who I am and makes home just that much more special.
Prayer
Father, show me the next step, but keep that in perspective so that I may find my way home to you.
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