God’s Good Promise of Home

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Have you ever been homesick? Have you ever longed for home—to be in a familiar place of comfort and security with the people you love?

God desires to dwell with his people. From the very beginning of time when God set a garden in the middle of his creation and placed humanity in the middle of the garden, God walked with Adam and Eve in the paradise of the Garden of Eden.

Since the fall of humanity, all of scripture reveals to us God’s pursuit of humanity, to rescue them, to restore them to himself, and to make his home with his people once again.

God revealed the final scene to the Apostle John of a new heaven and a new earth—the fulfillment of God’s plan to make his home with his people, to usher in his kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.

John heard a loud voice from the throne of God saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.” (Revelation 21:3, ESV).

John tells us, “And in the spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God… I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.” (Revelation 21:10 and 21:22, ESV).

God will fulfill his good promise to provide a home for us where God will dwell with us forever. God will dwell once again with his children in a new heaven and a new earth. God will give us his true promised land—a new Jerusalem where God will be with us and where we will be with him.

May we anticipate this homecoming, this eternal family reunion, where we will be with God and with one another in that heavenly kingdom home—the true promised homeland.

A Prayer for the Communion of Saints: “O eternal Lord God, you hold all souls in life: Shed forth upon your whole Church in Paradise and on earth the bright beams of your light and heavenly comfort; and grant that we, following the good example of those who have loved and served you here and are now at rest, may enter with them into the fullness of your unending joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (#113, Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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