“Lord, through all the generations you have been our home!”
-Psalms 90:1 NLT
At one point in my life, I owned a business with my wife’s family. It was a business for portrait photographers, so every spring and fall I would travel to different conferences for photographers. I wasn’t gone too long. At most, I would be on the road for 10 days out of a month, but it was long enough.
I didn’t travel as extensively as many people do, but by the end of a busy season of conferences I was happy to be home. I was happy to be in my own bed, be with my family and be on a normal schedule.
Moses, who wrote Psalm 90, lived most of his life (the final 80 years) with no permanent home. He was on the road all of his life. He was a shepherd who would spend days and weeks on end moving from spot to spot with his flocks. Then Moses became the leader of a nation who wandered the wilderness for 40 years. Just as Israel was set to enter their home…the Promised Land — Moses died.
So Moses wrote this beautiful line of prose. “Lord, you are our home.”
When I would return home from a series of trips, I knew I was entering a place of comfort, rest and relaxation. More importantly, it was the center of safety, peace and joy of my life. This is what home is.
God is home. In God is comfort, rest and relaxation. God is the center of safety, peace and joy in my life.
Two more thoughts for you to chew on this week:
1. Home may not be comfortable or safe for you.
Home isn’t a place of comfort, rest and relaxation or the center of safety, peace and joy for many people. It may not be for your either. Home may be the opposite of this in your life. Maybe it’s because of the chaos you grew up in. Maybe it’s because home is falling apart right now.
You can have comfort, rest and relaxation in God. In Him you can be in the center of safety, peace and joy. If you choose to put your trust in God, he can be those things for you.
2. Home may be too comfortable or safe for you.
It’s possible a blessed home is actually the curse keeping your from finding a home in God. Many of us in America have palatial homes (compared to many places in the world) that are more comfortable and relaxing than the finest hotels. Safety, peace and joy is just the way our home operates.
This keeps us from God because we don’t believe we need God. Maybe you know you need God, but you don’t rest in HIm because you don’t feel the need to. David made an interesting request for him enemies in Psalms 69:
“Let the bountiful table set before them become a snare
Psalms 69:22 NLT
and their prosperity become a trap.”
This may be the best description of the current state of America. The blessings many of us have is a snare. We are caught in the trap of thinking we don’t need God.
Interestingly, Moses experienced both of these problems. He began his life living as literal royalty. Home was a palace. Moses ended his life living in tents, never truly comfortable. Yet Moses was able to find it within him to see God as his home. Home was a place of comfort, rest and relaxation. Home was the center of safety, peace and joy. God was home.
Do you find your home in God?
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