Closer Home

What I love about blogging is my ability to say some very random things. I love it.

For example, in this blog entry I will link my parents, Quantum Leap, Abraham and what I got up to on a Wednesday night.

I was sitting in an office just reflecting on some notes that I made for what I get up to on an occasional Wednesday night. What I get up to on an occasional Wednesday night is sit in on a Bible Study. A few of us have been looking at the book of Genesis and what occurred to me more than ever before was just how much this is a book of faith. You don’t need to read Hebrews to get this impression. You see the exploits of Abraham and it is clear this man is a great model of faith – not just because of when he trusted and acted, but when he didn’t trust and acted.

As I looked at the steps in his journey of faith, I was reminded of one of my parent’s favourite hymns – Each Step I Take. It was such a powerful song talking about a faith journey that takes us home. Home being wherever God is, seeing God as the focus and fulfilment of faith. For the steps that we make, for the positive and negative, as long as the faithful one is with us each step we take takes us closer home.

That whole getting closer home thing reminded me of Quantum Leap. As you may recall the premise of the programme was the time-travelling, life-hopping adventures of Sam Beckett. There he was fulfilling one mission after another in his time-line hoping that the next leap would be the leap home.

There is something powerful about home. It really is about being where the heart belongs. It is about where we are fulfilled and complete and can be fully who we are. In the presence of love and peace, fully content. Until the faith journey is complete we leap from opportunity to opportunity. As long as lives need to be connected to that presence of peace and love, the journey will never be over.

In as much as it is not over, it is a journey where God comes through for us in various ways. He shines His light on us and through us, He shines the way home, He lets us know that despite our occasional faithlessness and apparent setbacks, the way home is still before us. We just got to keep taking those steps.

As each step we take – leads us closer home.

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For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden