This World is Not My Home....

"This world is not my home I'm just passing through
my treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
the angels beckon me from Heaven's open door
and I can't feel at home in this world anymore"

If you know this song and are like me, you can't help but hear it and start clapping and stomping your feet with a goofy smile on your lips. With moving to a foreign country, I have thought a lot about "home" the last couple of weeks. And I had to admit, there have been several days when my only thought has been "I just want to go home." (said in my head as a long whine) And why? Because home is where we feel secure, comfortable, and safe. It is familiar.
But as I thought about it, that while it may take me some time for the UK to feel as familiar and comfortable as home, I had wrongly made my "home" in Richmond, VA. I found security, safety, familiarity, and comfort more in this world (in Target, Starbucks, my friends, my modern bathroom, my comfortable apartment, etc.) than I have in Christ and the hope of heaven. Sadly, many times my focus was more on things here on this earth, than things of eternity and a longing for heaven. In Ephesians, Paul tells us God has prepared us to sit with Him in the heavenly realms. Why then are we so content with the craziness of this world? God has so much more for us.
Moving overseas has provided not only an amazing opportunity to be part of God's work here, but also the opportunity to be thrown out of my comfort zone into a place where I have to find comfort and dependence on God. It's made me much more aware of where I've placed my value of home.
Where is your "home"? Where are you looking to for comfort and security?
"For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace." Romans 5:6
Where is your mind set on? Is is set on eternal things or worldly things?
The Bible spells it out clearly: "Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in this world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away and also its lusts, but the one who does the will of God lives forever." 1 John 2:15-16
I'll be the first to admit, I have found myself loving the world and buying into the lie that happiness can be found in it. But, I want to be different. I want life and peace that God promises when we set our mind on the Spirit. I want to find my home in Christ alone, wherever this world takes me. Then I can truly find "home."