Why we cannot go home again: We’ve changed………‏

Isaiah 55:10-11 (NIV) - As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. We cannot go home again, home is that which familiar, comfort zone thing or person. Home is both tangible and intangible, and literal and figurative. We all have many things/places/people that are ‘home’ to us. But just like the water does not return without watering and neither do we return without some altering. Ask any parent of a child who has left home, and moved back in, both the parent and the child will say, the other has changed, both are correct. The fact of the matter is no one has ever succeed in this life without chartering a new path, or another way of looking at it is, doing what is unfamiliar, not ‘home’. Yet, when we return ‘home’ we desire things to fit, to work, and people to act the same way it always has. Everything is the same, you, the person has changed. We some time we get this dialogue - John 9:19-22 (NIV) "Is this your son?" they asked. "Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?" "We know he is our son," the parents answered, "and we know he was born blind. But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don't know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself." His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for already the Jews had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ would be put out of the synagogue. We are disappointed, become uncomfortable, transference of responsibility, and revert back to what we know because it is less work, unrest, and we are afraid. Why? It easier to go backward, we think, than it is to go forward, we believe. Yet, as Christians we should understand our victory lie in our ability to obey…Why? Isaiah 55:8 (NIV) -"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. Walking in the will of God, we never go back home.