The Home We Seek 

   “For there is no eternal city for us in this life but we look for one in the life to come.” (Hebrews 13: 14) 

   We expect our home to be one of love, joy, and contentment.  A place of safety and rest.  We may see glimpses of what a home should be in this life, but we see only bits and pieces of what awaits us in our true home.

   St. Paul wrote, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him.” (1 Cor 2: 9).  That is the home we seek, the home we long for.  We spend this life trying to find it, but in a world full of sin and evil, it cannot be found.  It exists only in our heavenly home, the kingdom of God.

   I believe God gives us occasional visions of what our true home will be like to heighten our hopes of what awaits us, to strengthen us for our journey.  He gives us signs and indications of what we can expect.  In the love of a man and a woman whose marriage is based not only on the love of one another but the love of God we can know in life what awaits in heaven.  But even this love is only a hint of the love that is to come.

   In the love and caring for others, whether in our home or elsewhere we can begin to understand what a world of love and concern for all is to be.  There are hints and indications of what is to come but we can never know the fullness of what awaits us in until we come to our true home with God.

   We to make this earthly home as near as possible to the heavenly home that awaits, the home He has prepared for us.  To do that we must have Christ in our hearts, we must give ourselves over entirely to God, confident in the promise of the eternal home we seek.