housing....
As I was walking one of my daily miles, I couldn't help thinking that less than a week ago I was walking among a different type of housing...
Orange/brown dirt, no well manicured lawns, few flowers, sandy soil, no cement walkways, houses of sticks and stone or twigs or cement blocks, built with little machinery, "lawn mowers"=goats, few Windows, plastic chairs, central water, open air courtyards, thatched roofs, one to two rooms....
As opposed to where I live in a small neighborhood with a variety of styles, colors, flowers in abundance, concrete and blacktop streets, noisy lawn mowers, multiple rooms, electricity at a touch of a switch, water plumbed into the appropriate rooms, wood framed rooms, tile or composition roofs, Windows with coverings, doors and glass...
A world away in style...but the same in heart...
But the people in each have the same basic needs-food,shelter, a savior...
And for those who have accepted that Savior, we have the same home awaiting our occupancy...
John 14:2-4 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
You know the way to the place where I am going.”
Or we seek to find the same Lord...home...
Psalm 27:4 One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.
There, the color of skin, our past dwellings matter little...only our love for the Lord...
These earthly houses will have passed away...giving way to His holy presence...
Thank YOU for the preparation You are making...help me and those whom I meet have a clean accepting heart...making sure that the "rooms" of our lives reflect your glory...cleaned, open to your love...
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