Day 24 – The Longing For Home
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Hebrews 1:1-8; Galatians 4:1-7
We’re all moved to see a soldier come home and scoop up their son or daughter. Witnessing those moments pulls on our heartstrings because engrained deep in all of us is a longing for home. When we gather with friends and family, we get a taste of the homecoming that awaits us in eternity. The holidays tap into a deep longing to be at home with God.
Seventeenth century mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal said there is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God the creator, made known through Jesus Christ.
When we think of home we think of family dinners, game nights and foundations. A love story if you will. But home as some may know it may not be the same for everyone. Some people had difficult childhoods, painful marriages, and empty adulthoods. Far from a love story. That is not the way that God intended it. He sent His son to be born on earth for us to have a relationship with him. He wanted to see, feel and touch all the is good in the world. He wants us to have a relationship with him through Jesus and give us the greatest love story ever told. He sent him to earth to become one of us and his son saves us from sin and gives us the hope of heaven. We have a chance to live that love story. If we hope, believe and receive the gift he has for us today, we are in the end filling that God shaped vacuum in our heart.
Reflect:
- Consider what circumstances have led you to make God your home and what you want to talk to him about today.
- Think of things in life that you are trying to fill that God shaped vacuum with. If it is not God then maybe you need to reconsider.