It was great to be home, with my family, even just for a couple days, but you know you have to get what you get when you get it. . . And I always take the opportunity when the kids are ok, for me to travel… and with the storms I never lost power, so house was OK so I could go… and? And, now I’m very happy to be home home, in my own bed. Isn’t it funny how we can have a feeling of home in many different ways? 

My friend’s house, who’ve I’ve been helping move, had a tree fall through the front, yikes, wow, one day after she left… and it was like she rolled out of town and the temperatures started to roll on up!! I’m so grateful she got the bulk of the moving done when the temperature was still cool. 

I stepped into my friend’s house to see the damage and grab something. She’s gone, yet it still feels like her home, but she’s finding a new home and she will love it with her grandkids. And even if the damage to the house is bad, it is not tragic. This is repairable. That house will be a home again to a new family. I appreciate she left the scripture picture on the fridge. God’s with us. He is.

Jesus IS.

For the house, the damage could have been much worse. No one got hurt and the tree debris was removed so quickly. And the realtor had just stepped away from that area when the tree went. This was God’s timing, she said, that she was DELAYED earlier in the day. Kept her out of this trouble. And we all can appreciate God’s timing even if we can’t understand it…

God’s timing will come in His Timing. God Himself will always be with us. 

What makes a home a home? They say home is where the heart is. OUR HEARTS SHOULD BE FILLED WITH JESUS AND THEREFORE OUR HOME WITH JESUS AND HIS WITH US.

Jesus said He had no place to lay His head, and even though we do rest ours, the rest of our time will be Home in Heaven. The cost of discipleship is remembering not to cling too tightly to this earth… Yes, make our homes homey, but best make our hearts heavenly and keep moving to where He needs us.

He will always be with us. Matthew 29

And someday we will say to our Father, it’s GOOD to be HOME…

Amen 

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Matthew 28:16-20 NKJV 

The Great Commission

Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

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MATTHEW 8:18-27

The Cost of Discipleship

And when Jesus saw great multitudes about Him, He gave a command to depart to the other side. Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”

And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”

Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Wind and Wave Obey Jesus

Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. So the men marveled, saying, “Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”