May 18, 2011 Welcome Home

May 18
Welcome Home
Read Psalms 87-90

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

WHAT IS home? A true home is a place where people love you, care for you and honor you. And you do the same for them. A true home is a place where you can enjoy good food and a refreshing night’s rest. Home is a place we can always go 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 calls God “our home”. The evidence says this psalm was written in the time of Nehemiah, who guided the rebuilding of Jerusalem after its destruction by Babylon. God’s people had been away from their literal home for 70 years. 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 to learn they needed Him.
Now God has welcomed his children home. And Psalm 90 describes their longing for forgiveness. Their hearts are broken and weary. They are ready to come to God, their true home.
God says, “Come.” He welcomes his 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 love you. I want to be in a place of peace and joy.”


Pause and Consider: the many ways God is your home—and go to him.