Daily Devotion

August 25, 2006

Psalms 106:47-48 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.

Here is the cry of the traveler weary of wandering; the longing of the pilgrim anxious for his destination; and the yearning of the stranger desiring a place to call home.

Some of us live in the country of our birth; some of us have moved to settle in another country. Some of us live in or near our hometown; some of us have moved cross-country. There are also some of us who are so traveled, that ‘home’ is not a geographical place, but wherever we find ourselves in the world as long as it is in the company of our loved-ones.

Whether we travel or live a sedentary life, our soul yearns for home; to be gathered unto its people and unto its God. Our soul was delivered from Egypt; it found its God at Mt Horeb; it has dedicated its life to follow the Lord. Now our soul traverses the wilderness of this world learning precious lessons of yieldedness, sanctity, trust and obedience to our Savior before it will finally arrive in the heavenly Promised Land where as the old song says, there are no strangers”.

Oh, my Lord and my God, how my soul longs for your presence. How it yearns to be gathered into the place that you have prepared for us (John 14:2-3). My soul desires you; it longs to be gathered to the place where misunderstandings, sadness and strife are things of the past. My heart cries for the place where it can lay fully opened to the light and not get burned; where it can lay it right open on the sidewalk without fear of being trampled upon. This, my friends is ‘home’.

Hebrews 11:13-16 . . .  and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Patrick Lumbroso
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