Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from the young singer, Blandy Garcia, singing … Heaven’s My Home … a song reminding us, as Christians, that no matter where we live now, our real home is in heaven and now we’re just traveling thru life as sojourners.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Micah 4:4 [NLT] …
4 Everyone will live in peace and prosperity, enjoying their own grapevines and fig trees, for there will be nothing to fear. …
… The Messiah will come for us and take us to His home, where we will live in peace and prosperity forever.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Micah 4:1-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Prophet was reminding God’s people of His promise to return and take them into the Promised Land to live with Him forever in a home He has created for us.
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Reference Passage #1 [NLT] : … Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] …
10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.
… Isaiah, prophesying to God’s people, along side of Micah, declaring God’s promise to lift up His people in their times of need.
Reference Passage #2 [NLT] : … John 14:1-3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus’ promise to His disciples (you and me too!) of an eternal home with Him.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Amy Peterson, used the reality of the refugee status in this world to illustrate how our lives now are in temporary domiciles … that we long for our eternal home with Jesus. The ODB author wrote: Sixty-five million. That’s the number of refugees in our world today—people who have had to leave their homes due to conflict and persecution—and it’s higher than it’s ever been. The UN has petitioned leaders to work together in receiving refugees so that every child will get an education, every adult will find meaningful work, and every family will have a home.
Today’s ODB author is reminding us, as disciples of Christ, that no mater where we live now, we can look forward to that day when we will live in peace and prosperity with our Lord … FOREVER. And as in the ODB illustration today, there are millions living as depicted and described above in refugee camps [see photo], … people who could latch onto that promise - i.e. that truth - as they live in squaller and pain.
But no matter what our status in life, or where we live now, as Micah and Isaiah reminded a displaced Judah in the OT [see passages from Micah 4 and Isaiah 41], and Jesus reminded His disciples in the the NT (see John 14:1-3), our Lord is going to return for His Bride and take us home to live in a wonderful place He has prepared for any/all who have believed on Him and received His saving grace.
So, as young Blandy Garcia sings in the linked song, we should all look forward to our permanent and eternal home in glory.
My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … As You promised Lord to Your disciples, come soon and take us home. … Amen
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