Homesick in Our Homes

Fellow Labourers-

"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. ("2 Corinthians 5:1-2). This scripture should remind us that we are not our bodies. Isn't that a part of the reason why we get homesick? The real us longs for something more than we see and touch. Something more than we hear and smell. Something more than we taste. No wonder as the advent season approaches, feelings of anxiety abounds. We anticipate the birth of our Saviour, but at the same time we are anxious to go home. It's as if there is an intersection where life and death meets, and we are caught between nostalgia and déjà vu.

If you are homesick in your own home, you are not alone, because we are seeking for a city. Being homesick for that celestial city means we are pilgrims on a journey. If you do not feel homesick then you are enjoying your temporary home too much. So, let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest.

Pax Vobiscum

Robert Stewart