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GOD
IS LOOKING FOR A HOME
5-29-05
Reading
the obituaries I am amazed at how many say the deceased has “gone home
to be with the Lord.” We get that view but we seldom are told the truth
that God wishes to come home to us.
There’s a beautiful little passage where Jesus says of His Father, “We
will come to them and make our home with them.” There’s another passage
where He says He will come in and sup with us if we open to Him. Now
that’s a very special supper guest!
Raised in an evangelical church, it was my definite impression that we
had to find God. Hymns were sung at the end of services saying, “Come
home, come home, ye who are weary come home.” It never came through to
me that He wanted to come home to us and that He considered us to be
His home.
Once it began to dawn on me, I was shocked for a while that God
considered me a decent place for Him to reside. Not only to reside, but
to dine!
It shouldn’t have been a surprise. Think of how you feel about your own
children. Do you not long to be in their hearts and in their lives? Do
you long for closeness to them?
This idea was driven home to me just tonight when a lawyer and I were
discussing spirituality. He had just read a book about “the God gene.”
He says it makes a strong case for man’s inherent hunger for God and the
beauty and meaning fellowship with God can add to our lives.
From an early age I was aware of my own God gene. The evangelists who
came to our church and tried to scare me into the kingdom of God had it
all wrong in my young understanding. I had the feeling that fear was not
a sound basis for having a spiritual practice. You can’t hold a gun on a
man and make him love a woman and you can’t make him love God.
Once we see and feel that the Creator longs for fellowship with the
created, no one has to scare us. We see that we are wanted. We do not
have to seek God. He is forever seeking us as any good parent seeks to
be with his or her own children.
All we have to do is open the door.
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