Home Sweet Home!!!

Home Sweet Home

Home is where the heart is

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home

Home at last

The home front

Home is where you hang your heart

Home is where you can say anything you please, because nobody pays any attention to you anyway....Joe Moore

When you're safe at home, you wish you were having an adventure: when you're having an adventure, you wish you were safe at home....Thornton Wilder

Don't you agree.....

.....that there is absolutely no place like home?!?!?! Wednesday evening, our pastor briefly mentioned something about "home"....and it got me to thinking about how I feel about my earthly home. It's comfortable and it's where I would rather be than anywhere else on earth!!!

When Jess was small, about 5, or 6, years old, we took our first family vacation to the beach. She was miserable trying to sleep in a different bed. She asked if the next time we went on vacation, could we put her bed on wheels and pull it behind the car!!! And, when Pappy and I got married (of course, he wasn't Pappy then)....I was so homesick for such a long time because I missed the familiarity of my home where I had lived for 22 years...and my bed. Even to this day...how many of you, when you go on vacation, take your own pillow?!?!?!?

But.....with all of that being said.....this earthly home isn't forever...it's not permanent....it's my "heavenly home" that I most look forward to seeing....and I know that as a child of God....I'm going to get to go there one day and spend eternity with JESUS!!!! Can you even imagine that???? WOW!!

Let's say that again..... I GET TO SPEND ETERNITY WITH JESUS!!!!!

Please...if you haven't already...make sure that heaven is going to be your final destination....your permanent home!! Don't think that just because you're a good person...or you try to live right...you don't hurt anybody.....you are loving and giving....all of which are wonderful traits....but, unless you've given your heart to Jesus....accepted Him as your personal Lord and Savior....then heaven WILL NOT be your final....everlasting....home!!!

Matthew 7:21 (NIV)
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

I don't want to get too comfortable here in my earthly home...because....as all of you already know who visit my little blog very often.....

.....I have a "hope and a future"!!!

Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NIV) - For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

This song was actually written because of the death of a loved one....and I've felt this way when those I love have passed away....almost a tinge of jealousy that they're already living in the presence of Jesus!!!!!

Homesick, by MercyMe

You're in a better place, I've heard a thousand times

And at least a thousand times I've rejoiced for you

But the reason why I'm broken, the reason why I cry

Is how long must I wait to be with you.

I close my eyes and I see your face

If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place

Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow

I've never been more homesick than now

Help me Lord cause I don't understand your ways

The reason why I wonder if I'll ever know

But, even if you showed me, the hurt would be the same

Cause I'm still here so far away from home

I close my eyes and I see your face

If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place

Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow

I've never been more homesick than now

In Christ, there are no goodbye's

And in Christ, there is no end

So I'll hold onto Jesus with all that I have

To see you again

To see you again

And I close my eyes and I see your face

If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place

Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow

Won't you give me strength to make it through somehow

Won't you give me strength to make it through somehow

I've never been more homesick than now

In His Most Precious Love....and with mine!!!