God Your Home

May 18, 2010
Read Psalms 87-90

Ps 90:1
O Lord, you have always been our home.

WHAT IS home? A true home, a right home is a place where you are loved and cared for. It is a place where you can enjoy good food and a night’s rest to be refreshed. Home is a place we can always look to when we are lonely and uncertain about life’s events. A good home, a Godly home is a place of joy. Home is a place you are always, always welcome.

The psalmist call God “our home”. The evidence says this psalm was written in the time of Nehemiah, who guided the rebuilding of Jerusalem. God’s people had been away from their literal home for 70 years. And in many ways, they were away from God, their “home”, as well.

God, in effect, had shoved them out the door because they were rebellious children. They would not listen to him, and they did many evil things against God. So as a good parent must do, he sent his disobedient children away to learn a lesson, to learn they needed His truth, and they needed Him.

And now God has welcomed his children home. And Psalm 90 describes their longing for forgiveness. Their heart is broken and weary. They are ready to come home, to come to God.

And God says they may come. He welcomes his prodigal children home.

Are you away from God, your home? Then say to him, “I want to come home, God. I want to be with you and your other children. I want to honor you and do what you say. I want to be in a place of peace and joy.”

Say this, and God will say, “Come on in. I’ve been waiting for you.”