Cling to thy real Home!

I have a little flip calendar in our kitchen, sitting on our microwave, that I've had for about 14 or more years. Still I never tire reading the quotes from it each day. I've kept it on Jan 19th, though, for almost a month now, because I have so loved the quote on that day (see below in green). I think I so love this saying, because I feel it speaks to me that it doesn't truly matter *what* home one has, as long as God is in it. No matter how the home may appear or appraise in the realestate market, as long as CHRIST is the foundation of it inside, the rest is mere chaff. We can be guaranteed that many tomorrows from today, it one day will not be still standing. Yet, if God builds the home, it is not in vain...can never be in vain. Christ is the solid rock on whom we stand, and any home lived in with HIM, will always be worth far more than its nominal weight in gold.

"Cling to thy home! If there the meanest shed
Yield thee a hearth and shelter for thy head,
And some poor plot, with vegetables stored,
Be all that heaven allots thee for thy board,
Unsavory bread, and herbs that scatter'd grow
Wild on the river-bank or mountain-brow;
Yet e'en this cheerless mansion shall provide
More heart's repose than all the world beside." ~Leonidas

"And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it." ~Matthew 7:25-27 (ESV)

"Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain...." ~Psalm 127:1 (ESV)