New Home

Well, we are moved in. Or perhaps it would be better stated that we have moved all of our stuff. The idea of moving in would seem to indicate that we have everything where we need and want it to be, and that we are settled as we want to be. And boy is that far from the truth!

Still, we are in our new home. We bought property last January, agreed to terms with a contractor in April, broke ground in May, and have since that time watched as a house has been constructed just for us. Now we are eating and sleeping there. I’ve spilled my first drink in the kitchen. It’s home.

There are still things to do to complete the place. I am doing most of my own landscaping, and I have several more trees and shrubs to plant. We will likely move furniture around a couple of times. And I’m sure there will be something we find that needs to be completed.

But as I said earlier. It’s home.

Still, here’s something to ponder. If we live in that house for five years (and oh how I pray that this will be my last earthly home), we will change something. We will replace carpeting, paint a wall, or do some other kind of renovation. It’s inevitable. The simple truth is that no home is ever fully completed.

In the same way, my life requires adjustments and changes on a regular basis. In this life I will never fully be the man God created me to be. And yet I count on His promise. “He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it at the day of Christ Jesus.”

There are two things that stand out in that verse. First, God will complete in you and me what He has started. And second, I don’t have to do. It is His work.

I’m glad to be in my new home. It is truly a beautiful place. It’s comfortable. It’s where we belong…right now.

But there is something far better for the follower of Jesus, more beautiful and comfortable, and made just for us. And we can trust the Lord to take us there when the time comes. He is faithful. He is true. You can be sure.