NEVER HOME - ALIENS ON PLANET EARTH

One of God's calls on my life is to write. For several years after my encounter with God in the car on the New Jersey Turnpike, I did write...and then years later there was another period of intense writing. Today, most of my writing goes into the various ministry activities and products.


Specifically, God defined the writing call as writing poems and hymns, and other works. Over the years I've written many poems - and many have been published, several by publications affiliated with Christian groups.


Now in this extraordinary period in which we live, one so close to the return of Jesus, one in which the secular world is filled with steps by leaders and media and other groups so out of line with the path with which believers would identify, I find that the poems written years ago fit very well. I intend from time to time to include a few here, intermixed with the essays, insights, and revelations. Sometimes we need a break. And besides, poetry often can say things prose cannot.


This poem presents the way I think many believers in Jesus feel today. Well, we should. Because it is true.

WE ARE NEVER HOME
(Copyright 2004 by John Newlin)

We are never home.
Not now. Not here.
No matter how we try.
We cannot get there.

The moments of joy
Family and friends bring
Cannot dispel
The longing of our hearts.

Harsh though the words,
God’s children are
Strangers in a foreign land,
Aliens on planet earth.

This is not our world.
But we will soon be home,
That we know.
Our hope is secure.

[published in Standard January 11, 2004]

That's right, this is not our home, not this secular lost society of fear and misdirection. That's why we often feel alone, craving to be truly home. That home is with Jesus and the Father. That home is soon to be realized.

Aliens