Home Is What Your Heart Wants

There is a good reason, a God reason that you feel a longing in your heart, a longing that nothing you do seems to satisfy. At least not for long. Maybe you have the resources to be like Solomon, and you can just go from thing to thing to thing. But just like him, it won’t last, and you find the same dead end. Solomon isn’t the only one who discovered that this life isn’t enough.

There are a lot of good, wonderful, and joyful things in this life. But nothing in this life is enough to satisfy that longing in your heart. No job, no spouse, no children, no career, no fame, or fortune, or wisdom, or whatever. You see this all over. Everyone clamors for more, more, more. Even those who are content have times of loneliness, and distance, and wondering if this is all there is. Even people with everything are still missing something.

And you know all too well that there is something missing. Something you need but you don’t yet fully have. But no matter how many people try to find it, it is not of this world. Only a Christian can truly find it. What is it? It is this: Your eternal soul longs for your eternal home.

That is the way God designed you, with a longing for what you cannot yet fully see, but somehow know exists. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says it this way – he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 1 Corinthians 13:12 says – For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. Home is what your heart really wants. Philippians 3:20-21 says – But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.  

What do you do while you wait? Your need for now is to realize your significance, satisfaction, and security in Jesus. Augustine said – “You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they can find peace in you.” You live for today by having an eye for tomorrow, an eye for the treasures in Heaven. Otherwise, you’ll look to fulfill that longing with the things of this earth. The things of this life are more meaningful with God. But even so, they can never be enough to fully satisfy the redeemed soul.

This longing is easy to sense when things aren’t going well. But sometimes, you will feel this longing even when things are going well. You know how it is. You’ve got it the way you want it. Everything is right. Nothing seems out of place. And yet you still feel out of place. Why? Because your eternal soul hears the eternal call of your eternal savior from your eternal home.

Jesus is reminding you that he’s coming soon, to bring you home.

“Living For Today With An Eye For Tomorrow”©