What a Homecoming!

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,  if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.(2 Corinthians 5:1-8)

What a Homecoming that will be!  While many schools and even churches are celebrating homecomings these days, including where I work, there is a greater homecoming all Christ followers can look forward to one day!

Groaning each day because of the trials in this world, we know one day we will be with the Lord and all whom call Him Lord and Savior. One day it will all be worth the sacrifice, tears, struggles, rejections, questionable looks, and backbiting. To be sitting with all the saints of HIStory and fellowshipping with Jesus Himself, experiencing  the presence of God and all His glory . . .to see friends, family, and those in HIStory who made it through . . .to finally hear; "Well done"!

Now that's a HOMECOMING!