I always sincerely wanted to make my home welcoming and comfortable...especially for those specific people if they came to visit me.
When building my former townhouse and later my current home, all future guests, including those specific people, were prayed for and words of encouragement were literally written on the studs, drywall, and floor with these future guests in mind.
For example, when the hubby and I built our current home, we created a 'cat-free' privacy zone where our guest rooms are. A couple of extra doors and, boom, no cats allowed and extra privacy! We were thinking of a variety of potential guests when we made this decision. We wrote verses, names, and blessings on the drywall and prayed. We wrote the same on the floor (before the ceramic went down) and prayed. Prayed for all our future guests...specific ones and guests in general.
One person we thought of was my Mom. We knew the modifications we made to our floor plan would allow her to have her own private space when she came to stay with us and would also allow her easy access to the main part of our home to enjoy meals with us and just hang out. You could say it was a place 'prepared for her'. We are thankful she has enjoyed visiting this home.
However, over the years, in the different residences, few, if any, of the other individuals that we had in mind came to enjoy the details that were selected to make them comfortable in the home. Yes, it was designed for our enjoyment as well, however, the main purpose was for the "special guests" to feel at home.
But most of those guests never got to enjoy those details or experience our hospitality. Those guests chose not to come. They always had an excuse. The invitation to "Come" was rejected.
There is a Home Designer who knows how I feel. This Home Designer has prepared many beautiful rooms that the intended occupants will never live in. This Home Designer has opened the door, issued the invitation, said Come, paid all the expenses for the intended occupants, and this Home Designer has been rejected over and over and over again.
Our Loving Lord said, "I go to prepare a place for YOU!" He has a room that's been designed with you, and only you, in mind. And He very much wants you to come and stay with him. However, many of you have rejected His invitation, and your place, your room, your mansion is empty and will never be used as He designed it to be used.
LITTLE LESSON LIFE EXPRESSION
Have you accepted the invitation to go to the place our Loving Lord has prepared just for you or have you rejected His invitation to "Come"? Do you know how special YOU are that He would go and prepare a place just for you to spend eternity enjoying? Are you going to continue ignoring Him, continue telling Him "No, thank you" and continue rejecting Him? Or are you going to realize the price He paid to prepare that special place just for you?
John 14:2-4 (RSV) In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way where I am going.
