“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 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 if 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 to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
John 14:1-7
Home should be a place of safety and rest.
But for three years, the disciples followed someone who ‘…has nowhere to lay his head (Matt 8:20).’
The reality for every follower of Jesus is that home is ultimately, finally, fully not a place or a people, but in God. In God our desire for security, knowing and being known, blessing, wholeness, and peace are completely realized.
And what a gift of grace: to be moments away from the disciples fleeing in terror - looking for a place to hide to feel safe - that Jesus reminds them that their home is with God. That Jesus himself is preparing a place for them. That Jesus will return and take them to himself. That He Himself is the Way home.