Heart to Heart: Meeting With God in the Lord's Prayer | Chapter Excerpts
From "Father In Heaven"
Have I touched a nerve in your own heart yet? Have you found the part of you that isn’t at home? I hope so. Because I have wonderful, glorious news. The dream of home is not just a fantasy. We have a home.
Jesus pointed to it when He prayed, "Our Father, which art in Heaven.”
Home is where my Father is; home is in Heaven! Everything around us is temporary. Every day I live as a Christian is a day that takes me nearer the home for which I long. It is a day closer to perfect love, to the permanence that comes from living in the light of the Beginning and the End. Everything I have ever longed for is there, in Heaven.
As I’ve grown older, my sense of being away from home has deepened. And even as I try to settle here, on the soil of this Earth--because this is what God has called me to do--I realize that I am still a pilgrim. I am like the Amish who settled in America but retained an identity that is not American.
As the world around grows increasingly wicked, I am grateful that this is not my home. As politics and philosophies whirl around my head like a cloud of gnats, I smile inside to know that it will all pass away, and I’ll find my feet still on the road to home. As I pass through this world, I pray that others will see that I breathe the air of another country, and will join me on the road. How I wish that someday we will all go home.
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Our Father | Hallowed Be Thy Name | Thy Kingdom Come | Thy Will Be Done | Give Us This Day | As We Forgive, Forgive Us | Deliver Us From Evil | Thine Is
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