Dwell With Me

September 29

Who doesn’t enjoy flipping through the pages of BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS? Such magazines give us a glimpse into the latest architectural and design schemes and afford us some good ideas about how to decorate our own living space. We also like perusing the articles that give us a snippet of how the rich and famous live.

Paging through the photos of their spacious and beautiful homes tantalizes us with a bit of longing for what might be ours if we, too, get lucky, as well as with a dose of reality regarding the contrast between our simple existence and their extravagant ones.

But even the most humble of believers in Jesus have a promise from our Lord and Savior that transcends the ordinariness of our temporal existence with the regal extravagance of the lavish future home we will share with Him eternally. We know that HE is King of Glory (Psalm 24: 7-10 and John 1:1-12) and the wonder of His presence illumines Heaven (Hebrews 1:3).

The promise of the glorious One who inhabits eternity is, “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you…and I will come back and take you to be with Me so you may dwell with Me there forever,” John 14:2,3. Our abode here may be humble, but our home in heaven will be the most glorious of mansions!