Home is a concept into which we are grown, I think. In the same way that believers learn over time the merits and nature of Jesus Christ through our sanctification, so also we learn about home. Is this extraordinary? God himself has promised himself as our portion, our dwelling place throughout all generations. Jesus, our elder brother and great high priest, has secured home for us. So then, just as the Holy Spirit conforms each of us individually and all of us corporately to the image of the Son, we can see our understandings of home growing and being conformed to reflect that home which Christ has prepared for us. Our comprehensions of the unseen reality of that future consummation manifest themselves now, in the Christian home and in the Christian church. Emmanuel has come and will come again, O Israel. Blessed be the name of the Lord this Christmas season, and may this advent season profit both our homes and our churches to the glory of his grace. Amen and Amen. Maranatha.
Posted by nickles at December 11, 2004 12:41 AM