Glimpses of Truth

Knowing Where Home Is

Almost everyone, without much hesitation, can quickly give their home address.  We can give that answer with great assurance.  It’s where we hang our hat, find our easy chair and enjoy the comforts of what we call home.  It may be a street, an avenue, a road, a section of town or a favorite area we have chosen.  The address is where we receive our mail, both good and bad; and it’s the place we fondly refer to as home.  After all, there’s no place like home! 

Yet, when it comes to spiritual matters, sometimes we hedge about our answers concerning home.  We sometimes say things like, “I think Heaven will be my home,” or “I hope it is,” or maybe even “I’m trying for it to be!” or “I’m holding on!”  What I read from God’s Word to us about our future home is not vague at all.

Now, I realize that the things of this earth so charm us that we can become convinced that this is all there is.  However, as believers, we are to remember that we are only passing through, and the attractions and values of this earth are only a grain of sand compared to the vast beauty of the “heavenlies” in which we really now reside.  We need a clear view of where we shall dwell when these few days are over.

It is not uncharted territory.  The psalmist declared it.  He discovered it, probably as a shepherd boy, uniquely sensitive to the unfolding heavens (Psalm 19:1).  “The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.”  That’s just like God.  He’s always revealing to us His mighty handiwork in order that we might see Him.

Paul put it this way in 2 Corinthians 3:18, “But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord.”

Can we really compare the best of this world with anything of the next?  I’m afraid not!  Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you.”  Wow!  A place, not an idea, not a fairy tale which we tell our children!

Now, hear this!  We can be assured that that which He is preparing for us will surpass anything that man might dream of, wish for, plan for or conceive in any form or fashion.

I suppose the principle reason that most of us find it difficult to become detached from the things of this world is that we think of all the things we are losing rather than all that we are gaining.  I assure you that there is no comparison.  And gain is always the best.

So, stop and look around you.  Explore the “heavenlies.”  It takes some personal investigation of the Word, some communication with God in prayer, some fellowship with mature believers, and then the surpassing glory will come.  And the knowledge of our eternal home will become clearer.