all they way home

So, the journey from Mount Calvary (Psalm 22) to Mount Coronation (Psalm 24) found in Psalm 23 through the valley is finally complete.  The Shepherd has guided us all the way Home!  This is our journey and this is our destination — Home.  Notice who’s Home it is.  It is the LORD’s Home (Psalm 23:6).  Now, notice who it is who leads us all the way Home.  It is the LORD (Psalm 23:1).  In other words, He left his Home, sought us, found us and is now leading, guiding, providing, and protecting us along this long journey Home.  For most of us, the way is long.  Along this journey we discover that it is not easy nor is it comfortable but the LORD knows the way.  He has personally travelled this valley from the Cross to the Crown Himself and He knows the way for He is the Way!   

We are not there yet, but if the LORD is your shepherd, you are on the way.  If it were up to us we would never make it home.  We would die in the valley but this Shepherd even overcame death itself, so there is nothing that will keep or can keep Him from leading us all the way Home.  

Even though we have never been to His Home, we have distant memories of stories of what this Home was like.  We were made for His Home but we wandered and strayed and lost our way.  Now, we are headed Home where He makes all things new.  Where there is NO more sorrow, death, disease, injustice, child abuse, rape, poverty, famine, divorce, drug or sexual addictions murder or war — ever again!  Home is where righteousness and peace dwell.  

Home is real. It is earth and heaven made new with a “deep” cleansing and the removal of the curse. It is full of mountains and valleys, of rivers and streams, of colors brilliant, of beauty unknown, of creatures great and small and that which is most stunning of all, The Presence of the One transcendent!  He takes our breath away for we discover this is the One who cried in agony on the Cross in Psalm 22.  He is the One who is Crowned as King eternal in Psalm 24 and He is the One who is my Shepherd in Psalm 23 who has personally brought me all the way Home!

There is no place like Home!