What do you think of when you think of home? I hope at some point in your life you have felt the best things home has to offer - feelings of warmth and joy, of familiarity and belonging, of comfort and compassion. With the upcoming 21st birthday of my youngest child, I find myself getting nostalgic about the years of childhood and the hope that I made our home the kind of place my children will look back on with the same feelings expressed above, despite my shortcomings. Home should be a place where love is multiplied and burdens divided, a place where we can come and rest our weary heads, prop our feet up, and just be “ourselves.” When someone says, “Make yourself at home,” they are expressing the hope that you will feel at ease, that you will experience something of the same comfortableness that you feel in your own home. “I felt right at home,” is one of the highest compliments that can be given.
In John 14:23, Jesus says that He and the Father will “make their home” with us. What an incredible thought! The Maker of Heaven and earth, our Creator and Redeemer will enter in with intimacy and be at home with us. May we rest in this promise today and may our hearts be a place where He can dwell.
By: Michelle Dowdy