A Meditation for Those Who have Lost Their Homes

You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.  Heb. 10:34 

You drive...my people from their homes.  You take away my blessing from their children forever.  Micah 2:9

They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them.  They defraud a man of his home, a fellowman of his inheritance.  Micah 2:2

And the Iesous saith unto him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.  Matt. 8:20

These verses point out a frightening reality.  They read like a message from the current media.  The powerful can seize the property of the power-less at any time.

You may have lived in your home for many years and believed that the faithful repayment of your mortgage meant that your were increasing your "ownership" position and that the equity could be used at a future date for your needs.

You were not among those who used their homes as a loan instrument or for some frivolous manner.  But you saw your property decrease in value and found yourself upside down, that is you mortgage was greater than the market-value of your home.

Even with faithful repayment of your mortgage the letters began to arrive and you sought answers from your mortgage company, but no answers were forthcoming.  You sought counsel and appealed for time, but the courts were unwilling.  Faced with a dire predicament and still your mortgage company would not help you.  You were merely a loan number - nothing more.  Then the letter arrived stating that the law would force you out of the house if you did not vacate by a certain date.

You packed and left and walked into uncertainty believing that you lost so much accompanied by the embarrassment of the poignant stigma of being homeless.

You are dazed by the event and you are wounded by the experience made all the more difficult because of the frailty of your age or the presence of children who wonder what has happened to their home.

Beloved be encouraged because those who abuse the poor and needy those who have sought to initiate ruin in your life will have ruin repaid to them for their crimes.

Get up, be encouraged don't be stuck in the past, give your disappointment to Iesous, it is too hard for you to bear.

Get out there, and by faith brave the fear of rebuilding.  Remember Paul,  "I can do everything through the Iesous who gives me strength."  Phil. 4:13

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