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Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching.

My Father will love him,

and we will come to him and make our home with him. 

John 14:23 (NIV)

After eight months of searching we have finally found a home in Arizona.  I am so thankful for God's provision and as usual, his timing is perfect. The day after Mother's Day the price was lowered on the house we were looking at by $50,000.  We put in an offer that day and it was accepted.  It seems like the perfect house for us, better than the others we had put offers on. Now that unsettled feeling of not knowing where we would be living in the fall has gone away and I am at peace in his will and timing.  He is never early and never late.

Finding a home brings a sense of security - a place to settle, a place for all of your things and a place to share life together.  Of course, the house needs lots of remodeling to make it our own, so we have begun to make plans to change things.  God, too, is looking for a home.  He is restless until he finds a place to settle down.  As we willingly open the door to him, he joyfully comes in and takes up residence. Then he goes about inspecting and looking for ways to make it his own.  He has a big remodeling job on his hands.  He has to get new furniture, paint and change all the fixtures until he is comfortable there.  Like my husband, George, he loves getting involved in remodeling projects no matter how difficult.  He joyfully goes about beautifying the place until it becomes a sparkling show place of his life.   

 Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him.

Eph. 3:17 (NLT)

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of--throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.
--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity