Patty and I traveled last week to see our friend. Patty left home in Montana, picked me up in Idaho and we traveled to Utah at the beginning of the week. We stayed in a motel in Utah. Not the 5-star kind, but the adequate-for-the-price kind. While a bit dated, it had nice beds, lots of pillows, a fridge and microwave, tv, spa and pool, and served a nice breakfast. It had all the amenities we needed for our stay. Then we traveled home Friday. Home. (What a wonderful word!)
Heb 11:9: “By faith [Abraham] made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents….”
2 Peter 3:13: “But in keeping with [God’s] promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.”
Abraham lived in tents like a stranger in a foreign country. (Sound familiar?) Even though the land had been promised to him, he would not live to see his descendants claim it.
As believers, we too have a promise. We have been promised a new heaven and a new earth, but not just new. We have been promised that this new heaven and new earth will be “the home of righteousness.” I like that, “the home of righteousness” (the one and only) under the rule of Christ Jesus, our King of Kings.
Father, how we long for home … for our true home, the one promised to all who believe in Your Son. Amen.
