Finding the Way Home
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May 2008

Wish you were here!

Today I feel rather like a walking cliché.

You just about have to experience the trip we just took in order to understand how often someone has the impulse to wheel around and say to a parent, child, or friend "did you see that?" only to realize that the person you would like to share the moment with is back home and not there beside you.

If you haven't walked through Jerusalem, been quiet and still on the Sea of Galilee, stood beside a 2,000 year old tree in the Garden of Gethsemane, looked down on the old walled city, or taken communion looking at an empty first-century tomb the song "I walked today where Jesus walked" wouldn't raise much emotion. But last week we really wanted to hear that song; because that's the happy way we felt. Nobody seemed to know all the words. We all knew the first line. That was good. We wanted to hear that. Next time over we need a singer who knows the whole song.

Trust me. You would have thought to yourself too, "I walked today where Jesus walked, and felt his presence there." There is not much else that is anything like that.

He's just as real today as he was then. His presence is just as important in Columbus, Ohio as it was in Judea. We have his parables; and they carry the same clear messages. We have the word of eyewitnesses that he lived after having been placed, dead, in a tomb. We know that he will come back one day to claim all of us who trust our lives and destinies to him. We don't even have to go to Israel to be part of the chorus and fellowship where there is no more death or mourning or crying or pain (Revelation 21:4).

But if you get the chance to walk by the Sea of Galilee, and up and down the streets and hills of Jerusalem, you'll enjoy a lilt in your spirit that makes you look forward to finding the way home and being in the new place with the one who also walked in that old place.

Wish you could have been there!