Can You Go Home Again?

John 14:2

 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you^?

Hello from the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, where I am currently attending Alumni Spring Renewal. As I write this article, I sit in the seminary chapel preparing for morning worship. As I sit here in contemplation of the day’s activities, the phrase “You can’t go home again comes to mind”  As I sit here this morning as one who is worshipping, there is a sense of filling in the fact that I am free to just worship and be filled with the word of God.

As I sit here, I contemplate the six years that I spent on this campus and in this chapel preparing for ministry. The last year I have had three homes, Seminary, Moline Illinois, and for the last ten months Benton Kentucky. I find myself carefully thinking about where to call home, and where to tell people where home is when asked.

As we enter our first week after Easter, the promise has been fulfilled and the empty tomb celebrates and promises the fact that with Jesus Christ we have come home, and through his promised fulfilled the home is eternal.  As we contemplate this week after Easter and as we go into the future, let us not worry about where we call our earthly home.

Next time somebody asks you where home is, tell them this: “I live with Jesus Christ with all of my heart, all of my soul and with my entire mind”. Living with Jesus is a home where furniture never needs moved and the mortgage never needs paid. Jesus Christ has paid our eternal mortgage and we have been given an eternal address with him.

So as I sit hear preparing for worship and I hear the piano being played and the hand bells being practiced, I have the knowledge and the promise that you can go home again and my home resides in the loving and promise fulfilled arms of Jesus Christ.

Home Is Where Jesus Resides.

Pastor Tim Polley

Reverend Timothy Polley is the Senior Minster at First Christian Church in Benton Kentucky and a 2011 graduate of Dubuque Theological Seminary in Dubuque Iowa.