"You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." -- Deuteronomy 10:19
I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. Thinking gets me in trouble all the time, because my thinking turns out to be ideal and yet there are large gaps between the ideal and realistic world. In particular, I recently have been thinking about people who long for a sense of home. I have met several over the past few weeks, and the music I am listening to right now just emphasizes that point. Home is a sense of security, peace, and love that we should all experience, but our broken world sometimes hides or even denies this possibility at times.
The early Israelites were constantly reminded that they were aliens, foreigners, or in the above translation, strangers in the land where they lived for hundreds of years. That's a long time not to feel home. Maybe the problem isn't with those who are lost, looking for home. Maybe the problem is with those who have found home. How can we open ourselves up to exhibit the traits of love, peace, and security so many are looking for? How can God's people reach out to those still searching for home so that all of us can experience HOME?
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