Almost Home

Almost Home

Patiently Waiting For Our Destination

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.  Romans 8:25

Yesterday, I took the afternoon off.  I went and saw a movie which gripped my heart.  What gripped me in this film was a son’s desperate desire to set his eyes upon his father.  To really know him.  To see his face.  To hear his voice speak not from a cassette recording or a written piece of paper but hear him live and in person.  It was a powerful picture of our longing for home.  For “the Lord to make his face shine upon us” a honest to goodness reality (Numbers 6:25).

Like the main character, I spent about an hour afterwards driving along some country roads praying and calling out to my Father, who I believe because of a Son Who gave me access to Him, actually hears me call.  In fact, He loves to hear my voice.  I like to sometimes get “lost” on back country roads just to see places, everyday places, which are less familiar to me.  It causes me to remember how much bigger the world is to my little one that I often get stuck in. 

But what was interesting yesterday is as I was coming upon a T in the road I was lost upon, I noticed the name of the road:  Langes Corner Road.  I couldn’t help but smile at what my prayers were consisting of (longing for home, seeing my Father) and the name of the road (Langes Corner Road).  You see, Langes Corner Road was the marker which I would cross on my travels home from college in Indiana, grad school in Chicago, life in Nashville.  Whenever I would see Langes Corner Road on my trip northbound to Green Bay from wherever I was living at the time, I would smile to know that home was only a few more miles away.  Almost home, I would say and smile.

Sometimes those last few miles would seem like an eternity, especially on a late and tired night.  But Langes Corner Road served as a reminder that home was coming soon.  Langes Corner Road was a signpost of hope.  Romans 8:25 is a signpost of hope.  Home is coming.  A Father’s face is going to be shining upon us in full and glorious splendor.  We wait for it.  Eagerly and patiently.  Earnestly and expectantly.  

Father, continue to give us signposts of hope as we wait in joyful anticipation for your coming again in which we will stand in the light of our glorious Father’s face.  Thank you for your Son’s cross and resurrection which point us with hope toward home.   Amen.

Thoughts for Reflection

What Langes Corner Road signs has the Father shown you recently which give you hope for home?

Take a moment to hope.  Hope that the things of the world will “grow strangely dim” in the light of God’s glory, grace and face.