I’ve heard it said, “Home is where your mother is,” and I do think it’s true. People usually refer to the place their parents are as “home.” When you don’t have your parents anymore and you are essentially an orphan, you can feel somewhat unmoored, like some stability that you had is gone, and it can feel a bit lonely.
But we have to remember God is our ultimate “home.” Jesus says in John 14:18 that he will “not leave us as orphans.” Beautifully, we have a home with him, and he makes his home with us.
So the reality is more accurately, “Home is where your Father is.”
In John 14:3, Jesus tells us that he is going to prepare a place for us. The meaning of this statement would have been understood in that day, as a groom typically prepared a room for his bride, often built onto his father’s house. Jesus is preparing rooms for his Bride, the Church.
We have the promise of a home with him, but he also wants to make a home with us. In verse 23 Jesus says, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.”
But would he feel at home in every room? Is he welcome? There are some physical rooms in my house I would not want people to go into, because they are disorganized and full of clutter that should have been tossed out years ago.
Are there spaces in our lives where God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit could not enter? Are our hearts open, uncluttered?
This season, have we prepared the rooms of our hearts just as we take care to prepare our homes, and the gifts, and the food?
Maybe it’s time to take out the trash, clean up the clutter, dust the crevices that may not have had attention in a while, and prepare him room.
Come Lord Jesus. We are ready.
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