Easter — Monday
TODAY’S VERSE
Psalm 90:1
Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. (ESV)
501 S. Limestone is my husband’s address 33% of the time. For one third of the year, 501 S. Limestone is where he walks, talks, eats, laughs, groans, exercises, and sleeps (or more accurately, doesn’t sleep). That big ol’ brick house might be where my husband lives for 24 hours every third day, but that doesn’t actually make it his home. 501 S. Limestone is the address of the fire station he works at, serving our city as a Firefighter and Paramedic (and a good one, at that).
His real, ACTUAL home address is…
Just kidding. I’m not handing that information out on the internet for free, are you crazy?!
According to the government, his home has been at a dozen different addresses in his life so far. But do you know where his real home has always been? With me. He’d be the first to tell you that home has less to do with a place and more to do with a person. For me, home is wherever he is. And for him, home is wherever I am. Me and him, we belong together. That’s what home is.
And I think Moses (ya know, the Old Testament guy) would agree. Moses never really had a place to call home. I mean, the guy started life as a baby floating down the Nile in a literal basket, got raised in Pharaoh's opulent palace, ended up on the run in dusty Midian, then back to sandy Egypt, then out in the straight-up desert. He couldn't stay anywhere for long. But the opening line of the only Psalm Moses ever wrote is this: Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Translation? Home has less to do with a place and more to do with a person.
One person in particular: our Father. What Moses was expressing, and what we ought to take to heart too, is that there is nowhere we have been, and nowhere we can go on this earth, where we don’t belong with God. The whole point of what Jesus did on that cross was to remove the barrier (our sin) that kept us from home (our Father). And in so doing, Jesus made sure that no matter where we are located or what our life circumstances look like, we have a place to belong, now and for eternity. We are under the care and protection of a Good Father whose Son made His home with us so that His Spirit would make His home in us. We have this good news to keep our hearts tied to our true home, no matter what our earthly address is. You and God belong together. That’s what TRUE home is.
APPLICATION
Sit quietly and listen to this song from Psalm 90.
PRAYER
Today, wherever you are, whether you feel rooted or restless, practice returning home by spending a few intentional minutes in conversation with the Father who calls you His own.
