Home Is Not Where The Familiar Is

I walked outside for the first time this new year, and immediately I was hit with this thought, "Home is where the familiar is."  

It's a lie, but it doesn't sound like one to many who hear it.

We all want what the word home invokes; comfort, the familiar, an exhale of the soul, but where are we looking?

Audibly I spoke out loud, "That thought is a lie.  Home is where You are, and where You are is rarely familiar or known, but rather discovered progressively." 

To walk with God, one becomes very accustomed to discovering life in "real time." 

For the Christian, we have a personalized Guide who has promised to never leave us, but many elect to walk away from Him for the familiarity of past knowns, even if those are unhealthy.

We love our comforts; don't we?  The familiar foods, the familiar TV shows, the familiar bed, the familiar routines..... the familiar.

What we don't seem to take seriously is that we are our own enemy.  You can't change your life apart from Him because your brain will absolutely keep you looped --- chained -- to the familiar.   

He meets us at our point of desperation to set the captive free.  

The question then becomes how desperate are you for LIFE and liberty over the (chains of the) familiar?

When we adhere to the familiar over the call of God, we, by default, forfeit what He has for us.  

He couldn't give the Israelites their promised land, until they answered the call to leave the familiar.

They could have stayed in Egypt.  

And you, too, can stay right where you are in 2026. 

Permit me to ask: as you begin your brand new year, what is God calling you to?  I can guarantee you it will not be the familiar.  If answered, it will stretch you beyond where you thought your limits were.  But I also guarantee you that if you answer His call, you will not end your 2026 the same as you are beginning it.

Simply put, home is NOT a feeling; it is a real time relationship with the One who created you....a surrendered, obedient, unfamiliar, stretching, yet profoundly adventurous and life-changing relationship with Home personified.  

As a Christian, we have been trained to think of Home as Heaven - a destination.  But if we dare to change the mental script to Him as Home - it best fits our enteral path we ARE actively traversing with Him in the now, IF we elect to do so.

What are you waiting for?  Discover Home this year.  🤍