A Place for You

 

[Jesus said] “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God;1 believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:1-6 ESV).

 

Robert Frost, a great American poet, once wrote: “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” That may be true in the common culture, however, that is not the truth of the Scripture. First, God doesn’t “take us in” because of some compulsion placed on him. We have a place in heaven because of the atoning work of Christ and the grace extended to us in Him.

 

It would not be unusual for us to doubt that such a place really exists. In this world, every home we make for ourselves, no matter how sweet it may feel, will always fall short. Sin and death bring an end to our earthly comfort, and even the best places in this life offer only a glimpse or a foretaste of full life with God in his presence.

 

Jesus has promised something remarkable to all who trust in him. Even as he faced his own death for our sin, Jesus offered the hope of eternal life with God to all who will follow him. He promised to lead believers to the Father and to prepare a place for redeemed sinners longing to be at home with God.

 

Our Savior doesn’t merely tantalize us with the offer of a perfect home; he assures us that He is giving us the absolute truth. Believe his promise and trust in his grace to prepare you for the place where your Father will certainly take you in. Let that home be where your heart and mind are each day of you earthly journey. There is where you will find a place just for you!