Just Bring Them Home Safely

“Just bring them home safely,” I prayed.

The rain had changed to snow and ice, and I was thinking of my husband and two teen-aged children who were at work. The weather continued to worsen and I wasn’t sure how treacherous the roads would be by the end of their work day.

My son was the first to make it home, early afternoon.

“I’m glad it’s you,” I said. His commute involved country roads which were quickly covered with the icy mix.

My thoughts went to my daughter and husband. “Lord, You brought one home safely, now bring the other two home safely.” Eventually they arrived home, safe and sound.

God might have said something like this to Jesus before He sent Him to the earth. “Jesus, just bring them home safely.”

God wanted a big family, and He had a plan. He planted Jesus, His only Son, as a seed into the earth to bring forth more sons and daughters. God wanted to live with His children on the earth, with plans to eventually move them to Heaven to live with Him forever.

John said it this way:

“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”

John 3:16 (NLT)

And Paul says it like this:

“All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.

Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.

God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.”

Ephesians 1:3-5 (NLT)

When a child of God arrives in Heaven, maybe He says, “One more is home. I am waiting for the others. Jesus, just bring them home safely.”