“Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home Now” was a song by Joe South that I first heard in 1968. My eyes still water up when I hear it. It is about someone who wanted to go back to his hometown. When he finally did, he realized it no longer existed. It was only a memory and not a reality of the present. The past had evaporated like the morning fog at the beginning of a sunny day.
Joe was being shortsighted. The home that we should be desiring, intently and with longing, is the one being prepared for us. It will be perfect and never washed away with the tide of time.
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to Myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”
Again, focus on the eternal home Christ offers, for it has a great view, never needs repairs, is rodent proof, and is situated in an outstanding neighborhood. “Don’t it make you want to go home?”
Give it some consideration.
Gary