by David Dewitt

Created on: June 26, 2008   Last Updated: June 30, 2008

When I was in sixth grade, we were sent to camp for several days. It was the first time that I had ever been away from my family for any length of time. The camp was interesting, at least parts of it were. I can remember one day, while we were studying weather. I was ready to go home.

The feeling of being homesick wasn't that I missed my family. I missed my routine, my things, my bed. I missed being at home. There is something about being at home that make life comfortable. The old saying is true: Home is where the heart is. My heart was not at that campground the last day of camp.

We all get homesick from time to time. We long for the things that make us most comfortable, things that bring us joy, things that bring back good memories. We all long for the feelings of home.

Entrance into heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion Benjamin Whichcote

Our place is in heaven. We belong with God in the place he has so generously prepared for us. There can be no mistaking this fact.

Paul seems to be almost homesick when he writes to the Corinthian church. If you have your Bibles please open them to 2 Corinthians 5:1-10.

1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. 6 Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 We live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
2 Corinthians 5:1-10

We get homesick for our heavenly house
How many of you have ever been camping in a tent? Camping may be fun for a while but it gets old fairly quickly. We get tired of roughing it and we start to desire the comforts of home. Would

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