40 Days with Moses 2025 Year of Exposure Day 28: The Lord wants us to live with Him forever.

40 “You in Your mercy have led forth The people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength To Your holy habitation.”

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭15:13‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

I think one of the saddest things about elderly people who have dementia, or other types of memory loss, is the fact that they no longer feel at home where they are living. Even those who are still in their actual home come to feel that they are in a strange place and desire to go where they feel at ease. They want to go “home.” Sadly, there is no place on earth they will ever feel “at home” again.

I had a dear family member who-although still living in the home in which they had lived for the last 40 years—no longer felt comfortable in their surroundings and repeatedly expressed the desire to go home.

We’ve all heard the expression, “There’s no place like home.” Indeed, we all have an inward desire to be somewhere we belong, somewhere that is ours, somewhere that is safe, somewhere we call home.

But, even for those of us who are blessed to be in our right mind and have a physical dwelling, at times, on a deeper level, we still yearn for more.

Of course, as Christians, we know what that “more” is we seek: to be in the presence of the Lord. The Psalmist David expressed it like this:

“One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭27:4-5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

You see, we were created to be in fellowship with the Lord, to share a home with Him. However, Sin came, driving us out of the home God had created just for us.

“So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made. After sending them out, the Lord God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭3‬:‭23‬-‭24‬ ‭NLT‬‬

But, like the Prodigal’s father, God welcomes home those who repent and return to Him.

“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’ “And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.”

‭‭Luke‬ ‭15:17-20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Indeed, because of the work of Jesus, even now, we have access to the Spirit of God, providing a foretaste of what is to come, while we yet wait for the day when we will forever dwell in His presence.

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”

‭‭John‬ ‭14:1-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Can you wrap your mind around the fact that the God Man, the King of kings and Lord of lords, has gone to prepare a special place just for us? Oh, what a wonderful home awaits us with the Lord!

Today we find Moses expressing the fact that the Lord leads us to His holy habitation. Now, we know that this was, in part, an allusion to the Promised Land to which the Lord led His people over the course of those 40 years.

But, far beyond seeing an earthly home, Moses also looked over the ages and saw an eternal habitation to which the Lord would lead us.

Interestingly, Psalm 91 (with which most Christians are familiar) is actually thought to have been written by Moses, or written by David from Moses’ words. It begins like this:

“He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭91:1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

It’s not far-fetched to believe that these are Moses’ words, given what he wrote in Psalm 90:

“Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭90:1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Yes, the truth is, the House of the Lord has always been our intended home. Thanks be to God that He didn’t allow the separation of Sin to remain, leaving us forever lost.

And—while we now share a wonderful foretaste of His awesome presence—we look to the day when we will dwell in the Lord’s house FOREVER!

For today let us discover what Moses discovered:

The Lord wants us to live with Him forever.

Peace to you.

Jesus is coming! Get ready for Him!