In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. John 14: 2-3
At my last writing, the move from Georgia to Pennsylvania was only in the preparation stages. After some marathon packing, arranging the moving process, a three-day drive, and loads of prayers of my own and my friends, I am moved in. Getting settled in the community is the next phase: post office; doctor; driver’s license; car tags; dentist; optician; hair stylist; lawyer; accountant (not necessarily in that order). All these are one step at a time. More important, I hope to find a new church home. I have visited five different churches, and I may have zeroed in on the one.
I hope this will be my last move before my final move to “my Father’s house.”
The apartment management had “prepared” my place with new carpet, some new appliances, and a fresh coat of paint. I moved in bag, baggage, and eighty boxes. My family welcomed me home and helped me get settled.
In the process I thought about my Father’s house and how this move spurs me on to yearn for the day when He shows me to my room in my heavenly home. “Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.[i]”
What does preparing for our final home mean?
- We become God’s children and welcomed into His family when we accept what Jesus did for us on the Cross.
- We give up our struggles to be good enough—because we can’t. We are all sinners, born sinners, and inherited a sinful nature from our original parents (Genesis 3)
See, I was born in sin and was in sin from my very beginning. Psalm 51: 5 (NLV)[ii]
- We acknowledge that only Jesus, as God in the flesh, was the only one good enough, and because He was perfectly holy, He could take our place on the Cross.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5: 21
- We believe in Him alone for our salvation
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3: 16
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Challenge:
Examine your spirit: Am I trusting in my goodness to get me to heaven? Or am I trusting in Christ alone, by grace alone, through faith alone, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures alone, for the glory of God alone?
Prayer:
Jesus, I acknowledge that I am a sinner; Thank You for Your sacrifice on the Cross. I repent and trust You as my only Savior. I anticipate, with a true Hope, my forever home with You. Amen
[i] https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/a-prepared-place-for-a-prepared-people/#flipbook/
[ii] Psalm 51 NLV – Prayer of the Sinner – O God, favor me – Bible Gateway
