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Our house was just down the road from those townhomes. It was on a military base in North Dakota, about 15 miles west of the City of Grand Forks. I hadn't been back there in 20 years. I was serving with the Air Force Reserves and had been sent to that base for a week of temporary duty. I wondered if the old house was still there. In Bring Us Home, Paul Tate nimbly weaves songs of hope, joy, and promise with songs of soulful supplication.
Now what's this business of taking two steps to heal the guy. This is the only time in any of the Gospels that this particular story is recorded. And I would contend that this story is the single best represented story of the Gospel of Mark. It's about seeing; it's about not seeing; it's about seeing indistinctly, and then about seeing distinctly. This is what the Gospel of Mark generally has as a theme—this seeing, and then seeing and believing.
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Roughly 500 years later, long after Solomon was dead, God sent a foreign army to invade and reduce that house to a heap of ruins. But the loss of the structure never stopped God's plan. In fact, losing the structure would become a part of the fulfillment of that plan. It was a plan revealed even from the very beginning of the Jewish Scriptures. God, the Creator, had always intended to dwell in and with and for His creation. God would never be an absentee landlord.

And He sat on it, and many spread their clothing on the road, on the way. And after looking around with personal interest at everything, because the hour was already late, He went out of the city, back to Bethany with the twelve. But in time, things changed as they do, and not even God's house was an exception. See, Temple management had different plans for that space.
With the Lord There Is Mercy
The words of the prophets speak with great expectation for that day. They said that the presence of God's Messiah would be the beginning of a new age. The blind would see; the deaf would hear; the lame would run. There'd be streams in the desert, green grass in the wasteland, and fig trees brimming with fruit, in season and out of season.

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It meant disrupting work schedules and finding baby-sitters for the other children. Eventually we decided that it would be best for Jenni’s mom and grandpa to drive down to get us. Relieved, we went to bed and expected to see Jenni’s mom by noon the next day. They're not false, but it's not the revelation of the heart of God. You want to see God for who He truly is. You must listen to the Passion prediction and resurrection prediction, and you must see Him at the cross, giving His life as an atonement for many.
And God's restored house wouldn't just be a place for the Jewish people to belong. It would be a place for all people. God said through the prophet Isaiah, "My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations." Everyone would be welcome in God's house. They could come in faith and talk to God to forgive and be forgiven, trusting and not doubting in their hearts that God was with them. And that He had given them a place to belong.
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At some point between all those moves across the country as a kid, it finally dawned on me. See, I was normally sad about letting go of our old place and the people that we knew there. Looking back, what made my family a secure place to belong was not that my parents were perfect. And it wasn't that my brother, Matt, and I always got along. It was simply that my Mom and Dad, by God's grace, raised us under the shelter that is Jesus Christ.
First, I thought I was on the wrong street. It turns out the base management had other ideas for that space. And a couple of years ago, it had been demolished and in its place stood another with shiny vinyl siding and brick veneer trim. For my parents, it was never a question of whether we would go to worship God with the church that week.
We didn’t think twice about the signs until four days later on our way back to Provo. It was then that our car suddenly stopped precisely 10 yards north of one of those ominous blue signs. The real picture comes up when Jesus gives the first Passion prediction and resurrection prediction.
They knew and you know that whatever your physical address happens to be in this present passing age, wherever Jesus is with His people, that's where you belong. And some of those who were standing there said to them, "What are you doing, trying to lose the colt?" And they told them just as Jesus had said, and they permitted them to do so. And they bring the colt to Jesus, and they put their clothing on it.
Get to the heart of a matter, make perfectly clear. For example, The crash brought home the danger of drinking and driving. This term uses home in the figurative sense of "touching someone or something closely." Dear Father, You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until we rest in You. And so bring us home to Jesus because He lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God now and forever.
This becomes the hinge—because we know that what we're going to do we're going to go from a partial sight view of Jesus, His person, and His ministry, to a full sight view of Jesus, His person and His ministry. No matter where we had been stranded, any of our parents would have done all they could to bring us back home. The same is true of our heavenly parents. And our Heavenly Father will take us all the way home, not just to a safe resting place. No matter how lost or confused we may be, we need only to make a humble call to our Heavenly Father, promising to heed His words, and He will lead us back.
Even if it wasn't a good home, that place is still a part of you. Good or bad, it's left a mark on you, left you with some sense about the importance of having a place to belong. When we moved to that house there on the military base, we knew we wouldn't be there for long, but when it came time to move, part of me didn't want to go.