Home is where the heart is, and your heart is where your treasure is. So treasure your home. Both here and now and now and forever.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about “home” — not just our earthly dwelling place or physical residence, but also our heavenly resting place where we’ll forever dwell in His presence.

Our earthly home is here and now,

full of work to do and much to tend to.

Our heavenly home is now in forever,

full of work to do and much to tend to.

Since we live in the tension of the two, we must honor God by the way we tend the two.

We can’t be too heavenly minded to be any earthly good, but we also can’t be too earthly minded to be any heavenly good.

We have kingdom work to do here on earth. We have a God to praise and families to raise. Our homes are to be havens where we can live in light of Eternity until Eternity becomes reality and Heaven is our home.

Home is so much more than a mere dwelling place. It’s all the things that give that place and its people purpose and passion. Pondering it all has truly given me a whole new perspective.

Home truly is where the heart is; therefore “do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” ‭‭(Matthew‬ ‭6:19-21‬)

So raise your gaze. Look up from the yuck so you don’t get stuck. Put down your phone. Pick up your Sword. Defend your home. Honor the Lord. Treasure home. View dirty floors as holy ground and messy rooms as sacred spaces. See home as humbling and hopeful. Find rest in the routine. Stay faithful in the familiar. Make home your primary mission field so it will produce an eternal yield.

Home is where the heart is, and your heart is where your treasure is. So treasure your home. Both here and now and now and forever.