Homecoming:

As I open my second to last letter from my family, there is a daily bread devotion for today, July 29th, titled Homecoming. How appropriate for me to be reading this devotion. The amount of excited that is going through my body is priceless. I am looking forward to going home and seeing my family. I realize every time I am apart from my family for a long period of time how much they mean to me. I take them for granted sometimes. I have learned that I need to give more patience to my family; to treat them as if they are not related in accordance to speaking to them with respect and not demean them. It is so great to have such a close relationship with someone that they know what you feel just by seeing your demeanor, or they know what you will say in response. That is priceless. What makes me even more speechless is the relationship that we can have with God. It is never ending. You can’t reach a dead end. God is so deep and intimate with us that we can spend our entire lifetime here on earth searching to know Him better but to know God entirely requires us to have a commitment with Him so that we may spend eternity getting to know how amazing He really Is. That to me is astonishing because the humility that I feel in his presence now, with the knowledge that I have now of Him, seems to take over my life. I want to kneel before Him on judgment day and hear His words of “Well done, Good and Faithful Servant”. That will be the ultimate homecoming. I can imagine how much my family desires to see me, yearns for my attention, and cant wait to have me in their arms; given that I can only imagine how God feels to have me in His kingdom, to spend every moment of my time to worship Him.