Sharon Sharing God: COMING HOME

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

COMING HOME

Camping is great...but so is COMING HOME!

Did you know that God is working RIGHT NOW in our lives to prepare us for eternity?!

Before He left the disciples, He said to them, "In my Father's house are many rooms...I am going to prepare a place for you...When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am."

(John 14:2-4)

How awesome!!

And God gives us the Holy Spirit as a guarantee, a seal on us, for that day.

When you go out to purchase a house, you look for many things. Everyone's list of what would make a perfect home is different.

When we bought our house, some 27 years ago, I KNEW the moment I walked in the front door - THIS WAS THE PLACE!!

It took some discussion at the time (the price was a LITTLE out of our budget) - but we made an offer, and it was accepted. We paid a down payment, waited through escrow - and finally, the house was OURS - our HOME!!

Let me tell you - JESUS paid the down payment, and our home is waiting for us in Heaven!

This time on earth is just the escrow period.

We believers have a home that is perfectly suited to us. It will be a home that can never be taken away from us - we will live in eternity with God. Our bodies will be swallowed up in life - and we will be released into perfect joy!

I like to watch a show called "Extreme Home Makeover." Each week, the show picks a very needy family, and they completely demolish their old house, and then they rebuild a brand-new, beautiful home for them.

There comes a point in the show when the host asks them if they would like to see their new home. The family opens the front door - and every week I am overwhelmed at their response. They cry with tears of joy, overcome with the knowledge that their old life is done, and now they can begin life anew.

THAT is the image I have when I think about my future HOME with God!!

Jesus paid the down payment, the Holy Spirit seals the deal - and God is waiting with the keys!

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5 comments:

MTJOctober 13, 2010 at 7:57 AM
Hi Sharon,

The thought of coming home, living with Jesus is overwhelming; nothing in this life compares.

"This time on earth is just the escrow period." -- My debt has been paid by the blood of Jesus. Hallelujah!

Blessings and peace.

MTJ
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livinginbetweenOctober 13, 2010 at 6:16 PM
What a great analogy! I'm so looking forward to that new home -- and I don't have to worry about something going wrong at closing. He's taken care of it all!
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lioneagleOctober 13, 2010 at 6:37 PM
Hi Sharon -

And Hallelujah - no foreclosures!
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Janis Van KeurenOctober 13, 2010 at 8:10 PM
I loved your analogy of purchasing your home to Christ having purchased ours in heaven. And that this is just the "escrow" period.
And Extreme Makeover is one of my favorite shows--how great to compare it to our homecoming in heaven.

Blessings,
Janis
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SharonOctober 13, 2010 at 10:03 PM
MTJ - Yes, indeed! What a wonderful home God is preparing for us. And what a glorious homecoming we have waiting for us! My debt has been paid - HALLELUJAH!

Glowin Girl - Thanks for stopping by! I like how you said there's nothing to worry about at closing. No hidden points or fees - EVERYTHING has been taken care of! AMEN!

Sandra - LOL! I love how you continued the analogy! No foreclosures - we need never fear anything. The home is OURS, and it's just waiting for us!

Janis - Glad you liked the analogy! I do love my "word pictures!" (Glad to hear you're a fan of Extreme Makeover - one of the few "feel good" shows on TV!) What a homecoming we can look forward to!

I am reminded of that old song:

Oh Lord you know, I have no friend like you
If heaven's not my home,
then Lord what will I do
The angels beckon me from
heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore!!

GOD BLESS EVERYONE!!
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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

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Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

COMING HOME

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