On Our Way Home

The Christian Life

“And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me…”~ Lk. 15:6

After my tour of duty in Korea in 1951, I remember as just a teen, the commanding officer calling me into his office and saying, “You're going home, son.” I have no words to express the exuberant spirit that came over me. Home: Mom, loved ones, friends, all awaiting my arrival. And I longing to see them. Generally speaking I find what you don’t desire you don’t love.

I sincerely feel sadness for those Believers who, for lack of a better term, have put all their eggs in this world’s basket. Most certainly, we’re to enjoy life and the things God has given us, but always remembering this earth is headed for the ash-heap. He’s going to remake it. This world, as we know it, is only an inn where we stay on our way Home. Home is not only where the heart is, but where God is!

C.S. Lewis writes of going home to Ireland and applies it to Heaven: “These last few days! Every little nuisance, every stale or tiresome bit of work, every feeling of that estrangement which I never quite get over in another country, serves as a delightful reminder of how different it will all be soon. Already one’s mind dwells upon the sights and sounds and smells of home.”

Again, Lewis speaking of our final Home: “ We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes are in the airing cupboard.” And to quote another writer, Henry Jowett: “Truly we are like children going home, jubilant and glad. We have been in the far country and our garments are stained.”

“Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends his pace,”

(Thomas Adams~Puritan)

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