We're Homesick

Most of us live in a state of chronic homesickness. Yes, we’re homesick.  Sadly, many don’t know it and never will. Some that sense it may never acknowledge it or understand it. While it may seem weird, the way that most of us experience our daily lives is with a sense of homesickness. Folks don’t know what to call it, and certainly don’t refer to it as being homesick.

The homesickness I’m referring to is ingrained deeply within us, almost as if it is a part of our DNA. All of us have it—bar none, no exceptions. Those who would deny it are those who have stuffed it far down insides themselves. They are the ones whose life choices have been, and are, predicated on the here and now. Or, perhaps they have been taught it through modeling or by example. Either way, it is completely consciously unknown to them, but it is there.

The homesickness I speak of presents itself in multiple ways; it can come in the form of a glimpse of those times in our childhood when things were simple, whole, pure, and innocent; it can come in the form of a longing for those times once one has dwelt on multiple glimpses in their thoughts; it can come through a revelation that life as we experience it isn’t what it’s all about—there’s better; it can come from a conviction that the life being led isn’t that which God intended for the one living that life. And there’s more, but you get the point.

Our homesickness, to those who are aware of it or sense it, is that longing we feel to be at one with God. We know we were made in His image, just as we know that our current image isn’t the same image we were made in. We know that He beckons the little children to come unto Him, and we know we are no longer the child he speaks of. We are homesick because we want to be that child and we’re not.

TO BE CONTINUED………