Homeless In Your Heart

Now, it's possible to have a place - maybe a beautiful place - to go home to every night and still know deep feelings of homelessness in your heart. Like you've never really found the emotional home, the spiritual home you've always wanted to experience.

It's not for lack of trying. When your heart is looking for home, you seek shelter and warmth in lots of places, some of which may have actually made you feel more homeless than ever. Maybe you've looked for that peace and security and acceptance in some close relationships, even in marriage. But the restlessness, the emptiness is still there. It could be that you've sought the shelter of building up a lot of financial security or lots of strokes and approval from people, maybe in your job performance, even in your children. But the best you've found is temporary shelter. After all these years, all these experiences, all these people, it still doesn't feel like you've found home. But you may be close.If you're ready to open up to the only One whose love is big enough to finally make you complete and fulfilled and safe. He's the One who created you, Who, according to the Bible, created you "by Him and for Him." (Colossians 1:16) That's why no one but Him can finally fill the hole in your heart.Our word for today from the Word of God is in Isaiah 53:6. It tells us why we've felt homeless all these years. "We all, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way." To put it simply, we were created to live God's way. We've decided to live our way. And that's made us lifetime wanderers looking for what only God can give us. But this same passage in the Bible tells us about the incredible love that God has for us and what He did to make it possible for us to come home.

Speaking of Jesus, the Bible says, "And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity (that's wrongdoing) of us all ... He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him." Jesus' suffering and death on that cross was to pay the death penalty for all our mistakes, all our sin, all our rebellion. So the road home begins at the Cross of Jesus when you give Him your homeless heart, when you tell this One who died for you that you are putting your total trust in Him to forgive your sin and connect you to God forever.If you want to begin this relationship you were made for, this love relationship with Jesus Christ, just tell Him that right now. And if you would allow me, I'd love to send you the booklet I wrote about this relationship called "Yours For Life." Just let me know you want it.

You've looked for shelter, you've looked for warmth in a lot of places that weren't really home. Today can be the day when your heart is homeless no more. You're almost home.

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Today's Daily Wisdom is written by Ron Hutchcraft, based on his popular radio broadcast,"A Word With You"."A WORD WITH YOU" daily devotionals are now available via e-mail. To subscribe send a blank email to:awordwithyou-subscribe@hutchcraft.com,or to request the "Yours for Life" booklet, fill out the form on this site:http://www.gospelcom.net/rhm/yours/yflorder.html. Ron Hutchcraft Ministries has been on-line with Gospelcom since February, 1996, providingpractical answers to real life issues. (c) 2000 Ron Hutchcraft Ministries, Inc.PO Box 400, Harrison AR 72602