Home & Heart

August 9th, Part 1.

  Well this is Reid Miner. As I write this I am sitting across from a fantastic friend who I have had the privilege of getting to know over the past few months. When I first met this man about three years ago I thought he was a weird, crazy, and high-pitched opera singing little boy. But about a year ago my flawed thinking changed. And recently, having had the great privilege of being able to spend a few days with him at Kingdom Bound, I have gotten to know him even better. Now he is not that weird person but a great friend who is funny beyond belief, a crazy good worker, and a fabulous friend. Tonight, with all his bags packed and ready to leave on a adventure, I realize how much he means to me. He not only has a great heart for God, but he also treats people how they should be treated, and is funny. He has impacted my life in numerous ways. I will sincerely miss him and his out-of-this-world personality. Goodbye Carmen. Have a great time in kentucky serving God and the local people. I will miss you very very much.

~ Reid. J. Miner

August 9th, Part 2.

  Home.  I don't think you could list how many songs belong to this title.
There is undoubtedly some deep innate connection between an individual and that familiar place they call home.  I want to venture a little further today though and propose a theory of what home actually means in our minds.  There are of course only three senses in which the word home can be meant, physical, emotional and spiritual.  As I explain I think it's important to realize that home is not only a noun but and adjective. Physically there is a place we can palpably touch under our feet, a place we can  construct, inhabit, and abandon; this holds in my opinion a minimal amount of affect on our true sense of home which, duly brings me to my succeeding point.  Our emotional home is a state of mind that gives us the feeling of belonging.  This means many things though; we can easily have a false sense of belonging, or it's quite possible you come home to an abusive family every night but you wont leave because in a sad depriving way....you belong.  This is a dangerous way to label our home because it means we will anchor our actions, and beliefs based on what we call home.  As an alcoholic your sense of home may very well be closer held and understood inside that bottle than a successful millionaire will feel inside his own mansion. Does this make sense? We are creatures who must belong.  I don't care how little you have, even if you have nothing at all you still have a place to call home, in this life or the next.  Suppose we took this concept one level deeper now.  Say as christians we understood scripture well enough to realize Christ calls us to actually be homeless in this life but heirs of his kingdom.  This means we need to realize that we are on a trip, we're not home, home for us should be solely found in our identity through Christ.  If we truly acted on this concept imagine the motivation we should be acting with.  If you we're separated behind enemy lines from your men what would you do to get home?  If you were lost in any vast unknown area I guarantee the first thing you'll think of is home. So why aren't we so avidly pursuing our real homes in heaven? Is it that we doubt Christ is actually making a place for us or that it sounds too good to be true?  I think it's a concept satan has done a very crafty job of portraying as a lofty, almost fairy tail like world.  The world treats heaven like an arguing point for philosophical theology when it's more real than the dirt under your feet.  This is something we need to remember as sons and daughters of Christ, we have a home with our father, it's really there, and he's waiting at the gates patiently to welcome us in. No fairy tales here, no make believe, this is very, very real.   Let Christ become your  home, let Him be your acceptance, and live as heirs of his beautiful kingdom.  It's for us.

2 Cor. 5:1-2
     We know that the earthly tent we live in will be destroyed. But we have a building made by God. It is a house in heaven that lasts forever. Human hands did not build it.  During our time on earth we groan. We long to put on our house in heaven as if it were clothing.

Matt. 6:21
   For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.