LETTERS FROM HOME
Greetings in Jesus:
How many times have you been far enough from home to warrant either writing or receiving letters from home? For a great majority of us those days are past now and most have created our own homes or have in many ways lost ties with the place and people that we once called home. Life seems to have changed on us along the way and we find that the longings for what we grew up with as a continual idea of home has changed with out our approval.
For me that was just one of the many things that I had to begin to reconcile in my mind and heart about the loyalties that I have always had with this world as compared to the Kingdom of Heaven. Not only has this world slowly dissolved any place that I can physically call my home in this life, it has also taken the people from me that my heart clings to in thinking about home in that way on this earth. That means that for me to really feel safe and secure again in my life I need a place to call home, and a place where I know that there will be others with whom I can share that same feeling of security with forever more without the thought of more loss.
It was that thought that started me on a journey to letting go of my claims in this life and start to cling to that which I knew had been promised to me by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In fact for me to fully prepare my heart for that which God has me I need to be able to fully let go of this world and cling to my true home. I need to be thinking of those who await me right now in glory, and who have already received the reward and knowledge I have been promised. I need to look forward to not having any more debt or bills...any more worries, and to the completer freedom and love that God has promised me, but I cannot do that while I still cling to this place. One of the ways that I have been able to release my own death grip on this life is to read the letters from home that God has written to me. God has written to me through so many inspired men and women that I cannot begin to count them. With everything that I read I read it through the Len's of the Holy Spirit within me who continues to guide and teach me truth from lie. By reading those love letters from Home...in particular those from the Father and the Son Jesus...I continue to me encouraged to let go of more and more of this world and cleave to God...I pray that you will find those letters from home equally as warming and comforting as I do...may you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
How many times have you been far enough from home to warrant either writing or receiving letters from home? For a great majority of us those days are past now and most have created our own homes or have in many ways lost ties with the place and people that we once called home. Life seems to have changed on us along the way and we find that the longings for what we grew up with as a continual idea of home has changed with out our approval.
For me that was just one of the many things that I had to begin to reconcile in my mind and heart about the loyalties that I have always had with this world as compared to the Kingdom of Heaven. Not only has this world slowly dissolved any place that I can physically call my home in this life, it has also taken the people from me that my heart clings to in thinking about home in that way on this earth. That means that for me to really feel safe and secure again in my life I need a place to call home, and a place where I know that there will be others with whom I can share that same feeling of security with forever more without the thought of more loss.
It was that thought that started me on a journey to letting go of my claims in this life and start to cling to that which I knew had been promised to me by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In fact for me to fully prepare my heart for that which God has me I need to be able to fully let go of this world and cling to my true home. I need to be thinking of those who await me right now in glory, and who have already received the reward and knowledge I have been promised. I need to look forward to not having any more debt or bills...any more worries, and to the completer freedom and love that God has promised me, but I cannot do that while I still cling to this place. One of the ways that I have been able to release my own death grip on this life is to read the letters from home that God has written to me. God has written to me through so many inspired men and women that I cannot begin to count them. With everything that I read I read it through the Len's of the Holy Spirit within me who continues to guide and teach me truth from lie. By reading those love letters from Home...in particular those from the Father and the Son Jesus...I continue to me encouraged to let go of more and more of this world and cleave to God...I pray that you will find those letters from home equally as warming and comforting as I do...may you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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