Sometimes in a world in turmoil we just need a moment of quiet and reflection, a moment of peace. So here it is.
We believers in Jesus are on our way home. We are always on our way home and have been
ever since (1) he rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, and (2) we
accepted Jesus as our Lord. Up to now
this going home has always involved the process of physically dying, but now we
are so close to the Lord’s return to collect his believers that we realize many
living believers will never die physically but will go with Jesus when he comes
to collect his believers.
We have never felt truly at home here have we, not on
this planet with so much mayhem and confusion and godlessness and evil
around. The whole world is under the
control of the evil one, as John tells us in 1 John 5:19. Our true home is where Jesus and the Father
are. Eternal life is being with
them.
Over the years I’ve written often about home, and I’ve
been thinking about that wonderful subject again. One of my favorite writers,
Robert Frost, wrote about home long ago in his Death of the Hired Man
poem. In a conversation there between a
husband and wife, one says:
'Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They
have to take you in.'
The other replies:
'I
should have called it
Something
you somehow haven't to deserve.'
These two incredible sentences capture it all, don’t
they. Home is a place you don’t have to
deserve. Heaven is our home, being with
the Lord, with God. We can’t deserve
that. We don’t deserve that. But we believers get in anyway. Why?
They have to take us in, because we are believers in Jesus!
We
don’t deserve to be there, but because of Jesus and our faith in him they have
to take us in.
Home. I’m ready for that place, and I expect you
are too.
Here
is my own poem on this subject written years ago. You may have already seen it.
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.
There
is no doubt we believers are on our way home.
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March 2026
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