Daily Butter: Home

My little addition to Our Daily Bread (8/28/12):

 

For Yahweh is good, and His love is eternal;

His faithfulness endures through all generations

(Psalm 100:5 HCSB)

 

In today’s ODB, Dave Brannon wrote about memories of a colleague on this anniversary of his home-going. On this second anniversary of laying the body of my mother to rest, my memories have also been shifted heavenward. This verse from the end of the short psalm that was the focus passage today stuck out – primarily because of the end of each line: “eternal” reminds me that there is more than just this world in which we now walk while the reminder of the word “generations” reminds me that it is by design that I follow those who have walked the path ahead of me. The beauty of the consistency comes that He is good, He is faithful, and simply His is.

 

My mother always reminded me that my childhood home would be my home as long as she lived there. My father still dwells there, and it is the place where my life and faith grew roots. While I still think of it as my home, and the house where my family and I dwell with my family has become my home, I do have another home where Christ is preparing a place in my Father’s house (and my mother has gone on ahead to help). Whichever the view, I’m not home, yet.

 

- Andy Jentes