This morning as I was reading Oswald Chamber's devotional, "My Utmost For His Highest" I was struck by these words,
"You can never give another person that which you have found, but you can make him homesick for what you have."
I began thinking about evangelism and the proclamation of the gospel and wondered how well we were doing at making the world "homesick" for what we have? When I talk with people who do not know Jesus I often learn that Jesus's followers make them sick, rather than homesick, with their approach.
Ever since the fall of humanity as recorded in Genesis the great story has been one of trying to get home. To get back to that harmonious relationship with God, creation and one another. We have been a people in exile searching for a way back home. Unfortunately many of us have settled for life on this planet as all there is, but we, Christ's followers, know better.
May we learn to live in this world in such a way as to make others homesick!
