Love Letters from Home

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
— Augustine of Hippo

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am there you may be also.”

John 14:1-3

Those who belong to Jesus Christ are destined to live forever as citizens in the holy city, New Jerusalem. That is our true home and the one that Jesus spoke of to His disciples when He said He was going to prepare a place for them (and us). He is preparing the rooms for His bride in the house of His Father, Yehovah. And He will come to get His bride, when we least expect it, to live with Him forever and ever!

As we wait for Jesus to come again to bring us into the home He has prepared for us, we can read of His love, His majesty, His power, His character, and His will for us in His holy scriptures—our love letters from home. Read them daily, and bask in His love!

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“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.”
Philippians 3:20-21

“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18

“By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.”
Hebrews 11:8-10, 13-16

“Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’”
Revelation 21:1-4

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Take comfort, my friends. We are not home yet. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! (Revelation 22:20)

Shalom

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All Scriptures are from the NKJV unless otherwise specified.

Augustine of Hippo – 354-430 AD, theologian and philosopher