You can walk into someone's home and tell which is their favorite room.
At my husband's grandmother's abode, it was a beautiful home. It was well built, with beautiful wood. They were not the pretentious type of people. What you saw and heard in them, you got it! They would feed anyone dropping by just to say "hello". Their door was never locked, their kitchen table had another place set with plate and silverware, and just in case, there was an extra bedroom made up to accommodate the most wore out tiny travelers in the country.
What time of day determined the meal being served, but coffee was always available and as well as a good ear to hear.
They had time for the rich and the poor, the able and the disabled. They had time to talk tractors, the Dallas Cowboys and the weather if the need occurred when a sudden tornado came on the scene out their back door.
They never put on airs about their financial prosperity, nor of their own glory, but always looked to help a neighbor, refresh another person and then send them on their way.
It always seemed like the greatest place to be. The people would start to arrive especially when they heard' tiny travelers' had returned for one more visit. The people of all ages would come to gather, to meet family members, greet with a warm cup of cocoa or coffee and ask so many questions, that it seemed more like a ride on a merry go-round. Laughter would fill the room and the T.V. would be heard, BUT only if the Cowboys had scored another touchdown.
Nothing seemed more important at the time than just being together and spending time with those you love.
In writing this today, I became aware of what things we miss when we do not have them any longer. I seem to move more into a place of silence and in that silence, I can almost see through tear drenched eye's the room in a house located in the panhandle of Texas. Today most of the family of that two generations are gone. Other's own the lovely built home. And I wonder if they house the weary, if they invite "tiny traveler" to spend the night or have a friend over just to watch say "the Cowboys" play and maybe score another victory in sports.
What we devote our time to in our lives sums up who we really are in life!
What takes center "stage" within our homes and within our lives?
Do we think of others?
John 14:1-6
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14:1 "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know." 5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?" 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
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Jesus spoke about us not being troubled. That we are to believe in God and to believe in Him also. He told of these mansions and how He is preparing a place for "you". Is it "you" that He was mentioning here in John 14?
Was He thinking on "you" when He mentioned mansions.
He desires us to be where He is at.
Enraptured with life and the love of God, would not our homes and hearts reflect how much we really devote to Him?
What endures in the sum of our lives? What we do for Him and through Him should give a loud voice to whom we serve with our whole being. Through Jesus we continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise----the fruit of lips that confess His name. (Heb 13:14-25)
May the God of peace who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, equip us with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Have you talked with Jesus today? Have you asked about that "mansion" in heaven? And what might be the address?
Hopefully you are found "in His heart" daily. And in your asking remember to remind Him of what He has spoken in your past. Pay attention to when He is quiet, and wait to speak till you are fully aware you have His full attention. In asking Him into your life, He has not taken His eyes off of you. No, you are all that He sees.
AMEN!
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