Make Yourself at Home

“Settle into the truth;  

Get comfortable with hope;

Receive the invitation to dream;  

Make yourself at home in love.”

Loren Thornburg

Make yourself at home is a saying we use to welcome guests into our home, inviting them to get comfortable and help themselves as they would in their own home.  Home implies a sense of being comfortable, settled and safe.  We all need places where we can make ourselves at home and we need people with whom we can make ourselves at home.  It is a space where we are free to be who we are without fear of judgment or need of approval.  In this place we can make ourselves at home within ourselves as well as in our surroundings.  You are free to be you and make yourself at home.

“I’ve loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my love. If you keep my commands, you’ll remain intimately at home in my love. That’s what I’ve done—kept my Father’s commands and made myself at home in his love.”

John 15:9-10 Message

You are invited to make yourself at home in the love of the Father.  That’s what abiding looks like.  It’s remaining, settling into, getting comfortable and feeling safe.  Jesus invites us into this love with the Father.  It is closely tied to keeping His commands and following what God says, for that is how God’s love protects us.  They are not commands to be domineering or threats to lose His love, but they are the spaces where God knows He can best keep you.  In the places He can keep you are the places where you can experience more of Him.  Then in that relationship of seeing Him and knowing Him we find all we ever wanted and all we didn’t know that we wanted.  He’s calling you to settle into His truth, to get comfortable with His hope, to receive His invitation to dream and to make yourself at home in His love.  You’re being called so now come and make yourself at home in Him.