A New Home

I want to write this post because it is something that has been on my heart today and for the past few weeks, so I hope it comes out how I want it to. It's long so beware...I hope you hang in there because the Lord has spoken to me and I feel I must share what is on my heart.

Imagine trying to sell your home. Imagine it has been on and off the market for oh say, 3+ years. You have had many realtors telling you that you should fix this, lower the price, paint that, put in new carpet, lower the price, plant flowers, lower the price, remove trees (not really, but Rhett sure took that matter into his own hands--and did a great job I might say!)...you get where I'm going with this. We lowered the price. Put in hardwood a month before Miss. A was born. Lowered the price. Painted 2 bedrooms. AND lowered the price. Planted numerous flowers, all of which happened to kill over because my thumb is not green. Let's just say it's frustrating and feels hopeless to have showing after showing only for people to say we loved the home, it's just not for us; the backyard is too small (what part of zero lot home they didn't understand before looking is beyond me); rooms are too small; shows wonderfully...the list goes on and on. Rhett and I have come to accept the fact that we need new carpet and the den & entryway need a paint job. That is on our to do list this coming week. I know I sound like "Debbie Downer" because quite frankly I feel like "Debbie Downer" when it comes to selling this home. I love it. I'm appreciative that I even have a roof over my head. BUT we have outgrown it by leaps and bounds. My children need a yard they can RUN around in, can THROW or HIT a ball in. It makes me sad that I cannot give them these opportunities within the comfort of our own home. Oh and did I mention that when one kid wakes in the morning or from a nap within 10 minutes the other is awake?

I digress.

Let me rewind to the beginning of the school year. The kids and I began going to CBS and my study for the past 9 months has been on Revelation. At the beginning I thought, wow I am not sure if I will make it thru this but deep down inside I REALLY wanted to do it and knew I would benefit greatly from it & so would my relationship with God.  I had never opened that book of the bible to be quite honest. I was scared of it and from the verses I had read none of it made sense to me. Well, with the help of my wonderful core leader, leaders & CBS I have learned about pretty much every verse in that book. Some of the stuff is still a little foggy in my head but the last two chapters just hit home. Home, this is what this post is about. Driving to my last day of CBS this morning all that I learned over the past 7 months finally hit home to me and God was speaking to my heart on the way there & while I was there. My "home" I live in now is a gift, I am borrowing it. It means absolutely nothing to me when compared to my heavenly home I will one day go to.  I have been so self-centered focused on how to sell and get out of this earthly home I have not been quiet enough to listen to where and what God wants me or my family to do or where He wants us to go. My main concern has been how and when can I get out of this earthly home, not "Lord, where do you want me to go, where do you want my family & I to be?" What if there is a community that needs us? Needs us to minister to them, to show you to them. For this will become my prayer for the selling of our home.

Anywho, what I've learned from this study and what I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE...

Revelation 21: The New Heaven & the New Earth:
~We are going to live in the VERY presence of the Lord. vs. 3-- "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God."  No more singing and worshiping him from earth. We get to be with him face to face, singing, praising, talking and BEING in the very presence of the Lord. I don't know about you, but that fires me up!! Wonder if I'll be as introverted when I get to heaven, as I am here on earth??

~ New heaven & the new earth will be our HOME! The New Jerusalem in which we will live will be perfect, Jesus will be there living with us! No more night time, always day because the glory of the Lord is what will fill the heaven with light. 22:5-- "And night will be NO MORE. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever."
Light, all the time, which brings me to my next point.

~ No more pain. 21:4-- "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away." No more darkness means no scary things. All of the scary, painful, hurt, negative things will be gone. I don't know about you but I look forward to no more tears and no more pain. To live in a perfect place with a heavenly body that will no longer hurt or be imperfect (because trust me it is) just astounds me and gives me such a peace! My longing is for my children to know, accept and understand that God loves them and that he offers them a place they can go to when they leave this earth...a place that's not scary, with no bad people or things, no more scrapes, bruises or hurt. A home with Him, their family and nothing but love and peace.

I finish this blog with part of a verse that I adore because my hope and faith is in Him. 21:6--"It is done!" Wow. Take that to the bank, Satan! :)

"Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I stand"

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