We are his home

 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.” (Mark 1:14-15).

Your dearest desire has come true. Look no further; the ultimate need of your heart is standing before you, and his name is Jesus.

The kingdom has come. It is found wherever you find him, wherever human souls gather around him, pray to him, love him, hope to know him and feel his presence in the mystery of their souls. The kingdom comes every time you turn to him in pray and hold his image in your heart.

For he is the kingdom, and his every word, act, correction, glance and touch reveals what the long centuries of human suffering and ruination have hoped to see but thought impossible if not also absurd.  

In him, God’s kingdom—the love and mercy God is—appears, and now all that matters is knowing him; being with him so long and so closely that the love you feel within is no longer you but his presence within you.

But this the very thing post-modern attitudes reject and imagine cannot possibly be true. We do not believe fulfillment of our hearts is possible, and beneath this is the lack of faith that God is ... and is looking for a home where the Holy One can abide and speak the Love for which our aching hearts long.

We are his home, but the home within us is crowded with noise and distraction and all we vainly imagine will fill us if only ... we do just a little more, accomplish something further, grab the next great thing or achieve one last goal.

But it’s never enough; emptiness remains for we are made for more. We are made for an infinite love, for the radiance of divine presence aglow within the mystery of our own depths. And this, this great and holy gift is given the moment we simply admit our emptiness and ask Jesus to give us the mystery of whatever is in him.

So repent; believe the good news. You don’t need to work so hard as if the fulfillment and peace of your soul depends on you. It doesn’t. Jesus stands there, his love aching to pour into you. Home.

Pr. David L. Miller