Homesick, I Am

Hebrews 10:10
{Abraham} looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 10:16
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Hebrews 12:22
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem

Hebrews 13
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. 13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. 14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

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I admit … I’m getting more-and-more desirous of my Country above. This world has very little allurement for me anymore. The main reason I want to hang around here is my desire to be with my family and to be of whatever use the Lord has for me. Other than that, Nada.

As I’m sure I’ve said before recently, I cannot believe how quickly our Country and the world has gone mad, crazy, insane. The level of irrationality is … irrational.

It makes no sense how an “enlightened” people can be so blind. And it’s only taken a few short weeks to reveal the blindness that has been simmering just beneath the societal surface. We are really a world groping around … lost. We’ve lost our way. We can’t make normal, rational decisions. We need to be told what to do each and everyday of our lives, really?

Sad. Alarming.

The darkness is overspreading with increasing speed. Our country has lost the God-given wisdom that comes to a people dedicated to Him and His Word. And since we’re not the beacon of Truth we once used be, the world has lost its way. It’s plunged into darkness. This has to be of Satan. There is no other way to explain this.

Our headlong fall into this COVID-19 thing only helps to expose our falling away from God. So much so, that we are approaching the point of a head-on confrontation with Him.

So … as of today, no more COVID-19 blog talk.

Why?

If nothing else it has helped me (and others) to assess my allegiance.

In grade school we used to Pledge Allegiance To The Flag. Back in those days … OK. But, these days … no longer. My allegiance is to my Heavenly Father and the “better country” of my biblical forefathers.

“Here we have no continuing city.” We don’t belong here. We don’t fit.

As the psalmist said in Psalm 119 —

19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. 20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times. —

God’s people have always lived under the awareness that this place isn’t our home. To read the Scriptures you come away with the sense that they were “homesick.” They longed for that place to which they truly belonged.

It seems that in order for God’s people to come unstuck from this world it takes trials, struggles, disappointments. God has to tear down the scaffolding upon which we try to build our lives. He has to show us that we have, all along, been building our house of shifting sand.

Have you ever experienced homesickness? I can remember several times as a kid feeling homesick. Being away from my home increased my longing for it. Being away from home helped me to appreciate home. It reinforced within me that it was the place I longed for above all others.

Sure, it was great to be away from home. And, truth be told, at times I didn’t want to ever return there. But, in the end … it was home … for better or for worse.

Well, I’ve been away from Home now for quite awhile. And with everything that I’ve experienced over these years, along with the demise of my country, I’m really starting to get …

Homesick, I am.

Perhaps, this is part of God’s handiwork in calling out His last day remnant. Honestly, I’m not too sure we’ve been looking with much expectancy for the Bridegroom to come and get His Bride.

As for me, I want to start getting myself ready for Him. And I believe He’s doing His work in me to cast off the anchor to this world and set my sails toward the upward gusts of His Holy Spirit’s home-calling.

Are you homesick too? Do you feel the upward breeze nudging you towards Home?

I’m kind of guessing you just might.