THIS WORLD IS NOT OUR HOME

Today's reading: Isaiah 29-33

"My people will live in safety, quietly at home. They will be at rest." Isaiah 32:18 NLT

While Isaiah speaks to a time when the nation of Israel will be at peace, I am taking it more personally.

I'm claiming this statement of the Lord's to be my own.

To be for me.

To be in regards to my home--and this world isn't it!

But when I get to heaven?

When I arrive in my heavenly home, I will be completely safe, entirely at rest, I will have no need for doctors, medicines, umbrellas, kleenex or a bed!

This world, even on its best days, is a mere layover on a grander, greater, more glorious journey.

To borrow a few lines from an old hymn...

This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through

My treasures are laid up, Somewhere beyond the blue

The angels beckon me from heaven's open door

And I can't feel at home in this world anymore