Live in Me. Make your home in Me just as I do in you….If you make yourselves at home with Me and My words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon.  John 15:5, 7, Message

     I like looking at people’s customized license plates, and then making up stories about why they would pay money for these words to be on the back of their car. So I was intrigued a while back while on vacation in Florida at the beach, I saw a license plate that read this way: NVR HOM3

     Hmmm. You can imagine the amount of head time I spent on that one! First, was it a good thing or a complaint? If I’m never home, am I bragging about it or am I whining about it? Or it is just a true statement about the way my life looks right now? Maybe a wife bought it for a husband and it is an indictment of how he chooses to spend his time, rather than being home with her!

     Then there is the number three. Did they just have to fill the space, so they randomly picked a number? Or do they have three cars, and those cars are the means of fulfilling the goal of never being home? Or maybe there are three people in the family, and when the third one got their own car, they said, “Yep, this one also has the family trait of wanderlust! We are adventurers and we’re proud of it!”

Either way, this person is never home. Never home. It could be the fulfillment of a lifelong dream, or it could be very sad. To me, it seems sad. I love home. Why can’t home be where we are, no matter where that is?

     It all reminded me of the verse in John 15 that I put in this devotional. “Make your home in Me,” Jesus said. Jesus is my Home. My safe place, my refuge, my place of rest, my peace and joy.  Ahhh. No matter where I am, I can be at Home. My license plate would read: ALWYS HOM.

*Do you see Jesus as your safe place of rest—always?

 Jesus, You are my true home—the place where I can go within to find peace and rest. I know that You are always with me making that available. Not only that, You say I can ask You for what I need and You will listen. What a refuge! I am so grateful! I pray with great thanks for Your presence, Amen.


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