In his poem “Death of the Hired Man” Robert Frost wrote these wonderful
lines about “home:”
“Home is the place where, when you go there,
they have to take you in”
“I
should have called it something you somehow haven’t to deserve.”
They are spectacular
sentences, the type only great poets seem to be able to construct. But I say to you, these two sentences are
marvelous descriptions of the true believer in Jesus Christ and their ultimate
destination – being with Jesus and the Father.
Home – Heaven – The
Kingdom of God. All the same thing for a
believer. The one true home.
For the true believer
Heaven is the place where when he goes there they have to take him in. That is part of the deal. It is something he doesn’t deserve, but he
gets in anyway because of the wonderful action of the Lord Jesus Christ in
going to and through the cross and earning God’s forgiveness for us. He gets in because of God’s grace.
Some years ago I wrote
the following poem. It has been
published more than once, and I again include it for you today. It reflects reality for the true believer in
the Lord.
WE ARE NEVER HOME
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.
More and more, increasingly, we
are strangers in this bizarre world in which we find ourselves physically
living. But have faith. We won’t be here much longer.
Keep Your Eyes on Jesus!
(June 2018)
Copyright © 2018 by John
Newlin
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