Homesick For Heaven

 Homesick, that inner aching to go back to a place we call home, yet many of us have experienced the strange feeling of being away from our childhood home for a long time, only to return and find things are not the same.  Maybe your family has moved into a new house, old landmarks are missing, empty lots have been built on, acquaintances have moved away and you realize that you can never go back to the way it once was, yet when you see the ones you love, you understand, home is not a house, it’s a who.  The people that we love make the place special.

 

As Christians, we are homesick for a place that we have never been before.  We don’t know what the house looks like.  We can’t fully imagine the neighborhood, we are homesick for heaven, not the place, but the person, Jesus!

 

Perhaps that is what prompted the Lord to take Enoch to heaven.  We can imagine the old gray haired man walking on the hill top, his sandals wet from the early morning dew, anxious to walk with God.  “Lord, I don’t seem to fit in down here.  I long to spend more time with you, yet these folks don’t seem to understand.  Lord, take me home!  Let me walk with you in heaven. I’m homesick”

 

Gen 5:24  And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.