I’ve entered two drawings. One for the HGTV 2019 Smart Home which I think is in Dallas, and one for the St. Jude’s Dream Home, which is in a neighboring city. The HGTV home is a free entry, the St. Jude’s home is a raffle to benefit St. Jude Children’s Hospital. It is the one raffle I enter every year.
I stand little chance of winning either one, but it’s fun to dream a bit of what I’d do if I did win. I doubt I’d actually live in either. They are gorgeous, but they are big. Really big in comparison to our little house we have here in Caldwell Idaho. As I’ve aged, the idea of cleaning and maintaining a “big” house grows less attractive with every year. Still, one never knows.
Truthfully, I’ve set my sights on an even greater home. One I won’t have to clean or maintain. It’s located in a place where nothing deteriorates or grows dirty. I won’t need Merry Maids or a handyman. And the best part, someone else paid for it and has handed the title over to me.
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.” [John 14:1-4 NKJV]
Our LORD has purchased a place for us where He is. He has deeded that “mansion” to us. It is all prepared specifically for each one of us. As much as I might enjoy the Smart Home or Dream Home here, I think I’ll be a lot happier with my abode over there. One of my dad’s favorite songs was “Mansion Over the Hilltop.” He would sing it whenever my mother played it on the piano. Here’s a link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZ3qyYnzJ0
