We often think how is it that we sometimes can feel lost? How can we find the way home again?
Well see there's a Pureflix Series called Going Home but there's a theme in the beginning of every start to the episode with a song called The Way Home by Aaron Morgan.
Now to me, the song makes me smile when I hear it, and I feel it’s an encouraging reminder song that no matter what you’re facing God will always show the way home.
The Troubles that you carry, keep your love from reaching out and I know this can be scary but I can help you lay them down, a life well lived is not the end when we let go we live again, the ones you love that have come and gone are the lights that you see leading you back home lighting the way on this winding road, you won't walk alone, I'm right by your side to make your way home.
When I think of these lyrics, I think of how God is leading the way back home even in our struggles.
When we struggle with grief, when we struggle in pain, when we struggle in suffering.
God always points us in the direction of finding the way home.
Sometimes finding our way home leads to finding our way back into the home in which one day where we all want to be which is in Heaven with Jesus.
John 14 verse 1-2- Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
John 14 verse 6- Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Ephesians 4 verse 11-12- So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.
1 Thessalonians 5 verse 23- May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Colossians 3 verse 4- When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Philippians 4 verse 7- And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 11 verse 1-40- Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.
By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith. By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.
By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own.
If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.
Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.
By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff. By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.
By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.
By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days.
By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.
And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies.
Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.
These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.
Philippians 3 verse 20- But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 6 verse 23- For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Corinthians 5 verse 1- For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
John 1 verse 1- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 Corinthians 12 verse 27- Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
Isiah 32 verse 8- But the noble make noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand.
Joshua 24 verse 15- But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
Matthew 7 verse 25- The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
2 Samuel 7 verse 29- Now be pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, Sovereign Lord, have spoken, and with your blessing the house of your servant will be blessed forever.”
Colossians 3 verse 14- And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Psalm 91 verse 1-2- Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
Micah 6 verse 8- He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humblywith your God.
In a lot of these scriptures we see how even God can bring us back home, we see how He can bring us back to a place where He is not done with us yet, and shows how even while we are still doing what we are called to do on our Earthly Home before we are called Home to our Eternal Home that we need to act justly, love with mercy and walk humbly with Him each and every single day because walking in the Light of Christ even if we sometimes fall short of finding our way home, God will still leave the 99 to find the 1 and bring them back, because we have a merciful and loving Father who loves us a lot.
When we are called Home, well that is when Christ will tell us well done good and faithful servant.
Sometimes it can be hard to minister to people who may not know Him and maybe while they are trying to find their way home, that is maybe where God is stepping into our lives to help them.
When I say help them, it could mean to pray with them to find their way back home, it could be talking with them, whatever the case may be, we know that God's Will, will be done and He has a plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJxs-v0KWQo
I'm sharing a link with this study because I want all of you to be able to hear the lyrics of this song.
I want you all to take in what these lyrics are saying to you, into what Christ is speaking to you.
You never know what someone may go through, so let us go out and pray for them.
Pray that we don't lose sight of Home, pray that we can help others in a way to find their way back to home.
Home is Where The Heart Of God is and The Heart Of God is Where Our Forever Home is.
I hope that this encourages you in your weekend and week, to know that you are never alone and even if you get lost from home or you know of someone or don't know them and they can't find their way home, we can trust that with prayer and conversation with them and with God, that God will always bring them back Home and that He will bring us back Home when we get lost at times.
Let us always remember these things so that we can uplift and encourage one another daily.
