Our Abiding Home - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2024

In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:2 NKJV

Our Abiding Home
For the comfort of our hearts the Lord discloses to us the new home: "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." Not only have we Christ in the glory our unfailing resource, but we have the Father's house as our abiding home. For let us note that the word "mansions" is really "abodes," a home which, once it is reached, will never more be left; there we shall abide. On earth we have "no abiding city" (Heb. 13:14 jnd). We are pilgrims and strangers here. Our abiding home is in the Father's house.

Moreover, in the Father's house there are "many" abodes. On earth there was no room for Christ, and little room for those who are Christ's, but in the Father's house there is room for all that are Christ's, the great and the small. If it were not so He would have told His disciples. He would not have gathered His disciples around Himself, and led them outside this world, were He not leading them into a scene of blessedness well known to Him as the Father's house.

To this home the Lord was going. On the cross He prepared His people for the place; His presence in the glory prepares the place for His people. Thus we are lifted above the weakness and failure of all things earthly, carried beyond the changing scenes of time, to enter in spirit a better world, there to find a home prepared in the Father's house.

-- Hamilton Smith

Forever with the Lord,
Forever like Him then,
We'll see His face in that blest place,
Our Father's house in heaven.

-- J. N. Darby