Homesick

Homesick:  experiencing a longing for one's home during a period of absence from it.

I think we all know what the word means, and have all experienced it from time to time in our lives.  I remember as a child in school, feeling anxious, and homesick, if only for just a few hours of being away.  I wanted to be home.  I've been on trips, and longed to be back home.  I looked up the definition of home.  Home: THE place one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family.  In sports terms, it means, THE goal, or end point.  Let that sink in.  Home is the goal of which we are with our family.  They say home is where the heart is.  That is true, isn't it?  If Jesus makes our heart His home, then we have met the goal.

Squire Parsons sings a beautiful song, 'Beulah Land'.  The first part of the first verse says, "I'm kind of homesick for a country, to which I've never been before...."  In the world's eyes, this sounds confusing.  That is totally understandable.  They don't have a relationship with Jesus.  But for those of us who do, it makes so much sense!  The world may say, you have just given the definition of homesick by telling us it is a longing to be where your home is, and home is where one lives permanently.  Oh yes!!  We are just strangers here, we are just passing through!  Our permanent home is in Heaven.  We can be homesick, because we know what is to come.  We can be homesick because Jesus makes our hearts His Home!

The older I get, the more homesick I get for Heaven.  The last couple of months, I have never heard of so much sickness, and death.  Young and old, expected and not expected.  The news is unbearable to listen to anymore, so much hate, so much fighting, no morals, no beliefs.  This earth is churning on it's axis.  I believe the call is soon coming to call us home, our permanent home, our end point!  Even so, Lord, please come quickly!  Are you ready?  No sad farewells, no sickness, no pain....what a blessed promise, what wonderful hope!