Come Home

 

Come Rest Awhile, Swinging by the river Photo by Dee Kamp

Come Home

We have several options for a place we call our home these days. We can buy one, rent one, travel down the road in one, or even live with someone else—it’s still called home to us. But do we consider calling God our home? 

“…He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need….

His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him-though he is not far from any one of us.

For in him we live and move and exist.” Acts 17: 24, 28 NLT

To call God our home, a place where we can live, is for most people, a new thought. We think of God as the One to seek and worship— but not as a place to dwell and live. We think of Him as a miracle worker, not a house to take shelter and live in.

What a delightful realization that God yearns to be the home for our heart. He’s not interested to be our home for a get-a-way, a weekend adventure or summer vacation— but now and for always.  To find our home in God doesn’t’ take a GPS.  It’s not a destination in miles, but a destination of the heart.  

We need not stress that His address will change or disappear.  There is no illness, or misfortune in our life that can shift, damage or disrupt our secure dwelling place in the heart of God.

God desires us to come just as we are, and search no longer. For He is our shelter, our resting place, God is the perfect home— come dwell in the house of God. Come home and live in Him.

"In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business."—William Penn

 “Come Home” by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© May 17, 2013