It’s Not my Home

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. (Heb. 13:14)

As a Christian I realize this world is a temporary dwelling, this will not last, but there is a place I am going that will last for eternity. That is the place I will call home. This picture above is a place I called home for nineteen years. I never saw myself leaving it, mostly because I had lived in more places in my life than I can even count. From a young child throughout my life I was constantly moving. No place ever really felt like home. I since have left this place in the photo as well. Eight years I have been trying to fill the void inside by calling this new place my home, to no prevail. I kept thinking it was because of the other house and I simply was grieving not being there anymore, but then I realized while reading the Word of God, He never intended for me to become comfortable there, or here or anywhere on this earth. This is not my home. By believing that earth is merely a temporary, passing journey rather than my permanent home it allows me to long for my heavenly home and it causes me to have a feeling of not belonging in this present world, because I don’t. Which also brings me to a heart of discontentment. It’s really hard to be content when your not where you belong. I’m glad to know that I am just passing through, because that is where my contentment is, knowing this is a temporary place. We can all accept something for awhile, especially when we know it is not going to last forever, change is coming. A kind of change that we only hoped for, longed for, like a forever home. This unhappiness that I find myself experiencing time after time is nothing more than a hunger for heaven. I will never find true satisfaction in the things of this world. Nothing on earth can satisfy. Yesterday I remember writing about me singing a song about “Come Jesus Come” why was that? Because He is the only one that satisfies. He is the One that promises me that forever home. John 14:1-4 speaks of just what I am saying. “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.” This is my dwelling, my home, my permanent secure place, forever and ever. It has already been set aside for me the day I should arrive there. This, I can find true contentment in. Home at last.