Inside Our Home

When we are old, we build a fire. When we are hungry, we prepare food. When we are tired, we turn in for slumber. So trained to attend to our physical longings, we too often neglect out spiritual needs. When we are cold, should we not blanket ourselves with that of the Father’s love?  When we are hungry should we not be fed by His word that we may model our actions after Christ?  When we are tired should we not take rest in the Father’s arms that we may be rejuvenated by His promises?  We concern ourselves with the finite ever looking past the infinite. Given all that we need, the Father has entrusted us with His love, with His word, with His promises and yet we tend to set them aside that we may fulfill our agenda, that we may become accomplished, renown in our careers and safeguarded by our desires. Should we turn to the Father, should we trust in Him, should we allow Him to blanket our lives in love, should we reap the words that He has sown, should we be revitalized by His promises; then we would gravitate toward the infinite realizing that humanity is only but a moment and life is eternal. This we ask: build in us a fire, Oh Lord. Let it burn with the desires of love, hope, humility and grace that we may become a warmth, a security, a safe haven for those who have forgotten about the infinite. Too much time do we spend upon that which will not last; Your Fire is eternal, let us be the vessel for such warmth. Help us to recognize the difference between being cold and freezing. The latter pertaining to the physical while the former speaking to the distance we can have created between ourselves and You. Blanket us, Oh Lord, that the warmth of Your love motivate our actions in response to Your words for Your words are the medicinal assurance needed to move about in this chaotic world. You have taught us, by the actions of Christ, how to live, how to love, how to act; Your words our source of nourishment though we often neglect such greatness as we turn toward sustenance of the body.  Help us, Dear Lord, help us to recognize the signs of spiritual hunger that we may gravitate toward Your word for our fulfillment. While the body can go without food, we cannot go without You and though our mind has this truth twisted, the heart knows the truth. Help us to accept this truth and love by Your words for it is Your words which bring us home to You, into Your loving arms. Quickly we tire in this world of have to’s and now and when we take slumber we seem to wrestle with the night never fully rested, never fully prepared for the adventures of the next day. Yet You offer such a solution, You offer Yourself as our home, as our means of rest. Help us, Oh Father, to accept Your offer of a home within Your arms. Here we are safe, we are protected, we are loved, we are cherished and yet from this home we often run as the mind has convinced us it is not real. The heart knows of this place, it knows of its truths so help us, please, Father, to trust in the heart, trust in Your and take rest I Your loving arms. With this test we can see, clearly, our path, we can hear, clearly, the cries of our fellow travelers, we will know, for certain, Your love for us and our purpose in this world. Rested, we will have the strength needed to serve others and give, freely, of ourselves. Help us, Oh Lord, to move past ourselves, to sideline our physical wants that we may attend to our spiritual needs, stoking the fires of our eternal reality. And so the fire is built, the food prepared and love the breath of the air. We move, now, with purpose, with ability and with commitment to grow from within as our faith takes root inside our home; our home of You.