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Dear friends,

C.S. Lewis described an inchoate feeling that sometimes comes over us–a wistful ache we cannot identify. He writes this “unsatisfactory desire…is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction,” a sweet, piercing, inconsolable longing, a nostalgic, future-facing longing for a home we have never yet seen. He argued that this longing is a pointer to God: “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

He also said that the beauty we encounter in books, music, and nature is not the thing itself, but “the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have not visited”–all images of this longing for God and his country.

Sometimes we get homesick for God. The writer of Psalm 84 remembers the temple–the place of God’s presence–and longs to be there. Even the sparrow and the swallow have found a home near God’s altar; he wants that kind of nearness for himself.

“Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.” The truly happy person is not the one with the easiest circumstances, but the one whose life is oriented toward God. Even when they pass through a place of dryness and tears, it somehow turns into a place of springs. God’s presence sustains them.

This week, ask: Where is my heart at home? What do I instinctively run to for comfort, security, or joy? Pray that the Spirit would make Psalm 84:10 your desire: “A day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.”

In Christ’s love,

Pastor Randy 

Join Us This Sunday

July 26, 2026 

Old Testament: Psalm 84

New Testament: John 14:1-6 

SERMON: “Finding Our True Home”

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol… God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on.” –C.S. Lewis