I MISS HOME

Home, according to the dictionary means “the place of origin.”

Have you ever left home for a long vacation, and while on your way back aboard an airplane, bus, train, or boat, you want to hurry home?

After a long day from the office, when you get inside your room, you lie down on your bed and sigh, “aah, there is no place like home.”

On the other hand, have you ever felt lonely even when you are actually home? You look outside your window with no apparent reason and feel lonely and homesick?

I have different experience and story to tell you.

During my teenage years, I did not have a very good relationship with my Dad. He would discipline and in his strict disciplining he would punish and sometimes even beat me as if I was a small child. I hated that so much. One time, I decided to run away from home. I stayed with my Aunt in Binondo, Manila . She lived in an old house. She gave me a room on the second floor and told me when I am hungry, I could just get myself something to eat in the kitchen, or if ever I would need anything else, I could just call the housemaids.

One time I was awakened from my sleep, and I thought I was on my bed at home. I felt lonely that night, wanting to go back home.

The next morning, I overheared my Aunt talking with my Mom over the phone. I hurried to pack my things up and transfer to my friend’s house in Makati just about a kilometer away from our house. The more I miss home when my friend told me to sleep on their living room’s sofa because his room with a single bed is just fit for one person. I stayed there for a couple of days and then decided to go back home.

When I arrived, my Dad was watching TV. He looked at me, and smiled and asked, “have you eaten?” “Get some food in the kitchen.” So I did and ate as if I haven’t eaten for years. Then I went to my room and lied down on my bed, as I uttered the words” Dad I forgive you and I miss home.”

Sometimes when I am alone looking outside my window, I still miss “home”- not our house, not my soft bed, but my home with Jesus in Heaven. My place of origin.Because He promised…
“In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going 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. (John 14:2-3) Jesus Christ.

Bible Reading: John 14:1-14

1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3And 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. 4You know the way to the place where I am going."
5Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"
6Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
8Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
9Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 12I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.


Meaning: There’s a place for us in heaven prepared by our Lord Jesus Christ and we can go there through Him if we believe and trust in Him. Because He is the only way.

Application: Knowing Jesus increases my faith in Him, and knowing that someday I will be going to His house in heaven.

Character of Jesus: He cares for us even about our future home in heaven and He teaches us how to reach that place he has instored for us.