(My prayer is that you will read through to the end to find the way home, no matter where you are right at this moment.)
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” – John 14:18-21 NIV
Jesus spoke these tender words to the disciples before his crucifixion. He loved them. He knew that things would be changing for them. He wanted to reassure them that they would not be left alone. He even knew that at times they might feel alone.
In The Message version, I love how it states Jesus’s loving preparatory teaching this way, “In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you’re going to SEE ME because I am alive and you’re about to COME ALIVE. At that moment YOU WILL KNOW ABSOLUTELY that I’m in my Father, and you’re in me, and I’m in you.”
Whatever is changing in your world right now, it can sometimes feel like you’re left alone and abandoned… orphaned. Separated from your support system, maybe you feel deserted by the ones who you thought were supposed to care for you, or you wandered away on your own, not realizing until later when you looked back that others would no longer be there for you.
MAYBE YOU FEEL LOST IN THE WORLD, ORPHANED & ABANDONED.
The world takes advantage of orphans — orphans who yearn for belonging, who crave love, who would do anything to fit in for acceptance, and just want to have people that wrap around them that feels like home. When you turn to the world to fill the deep desire of your soul to have a place that feels like home, it’s just a matter of time before you fall into the traps of accepting a false sense of security instead of true safety, of accepting love that’s based on conditions that slowly break you down and crush your spirit, and traps that lead you to choose silence and isolation rather than the true peace only found in healthy relationships.
FEELING ALONE, WHAT IF YOU’RE CREATING WHAT YOU DIDN’T WANT? Maybe you think that God abandoned you or that he didn’t care enough to stick around all the way to the end of the most important game of your life? The world tends to believe that the Creator of the Universe is like a distant, overwhelmed, or unloving parent in this way. After all, if we were God, we wouldn’t be able to be fully present for every one of our children, would we? Time limitations wouldn’t allow it. Our energy limitations wouldn’t allow it. The limitations of our patience wouldn’t allow it.
If we were God… we would inadvertently leave many people feeling orphaned and abandoned. But we are NOT God, and in Numbers 23:19, it reminds us that, “God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?”
Jesus is God, and he is not like us fickle humans. Returning to his Father after his crucifixion, he sent Holy Spirit to dwell in those who loved him, believed in him, received him as Lord, and obeyed his commands. He promised that those who would seek him with their whole hearts would SEE HIM, and because they know him in his fullness and aliveness, they too COME ALIVE with his spirit in them.
What if you are not alone and orphaned? What if you are the child who wandered away from the One who was caring for you, providing everything you needed, and the One who loved you from before you were born, but you wandered away, stomped away frustrated, or was misled away by someone else… and you got lost?
THE LOST WILL BE FOUND. Stop running from the One who wants to care for you completely and bring you home. Receive his life as your own, because that is what he’s offering, and trust that you can look to Jesus as being absolutely one with the Heavenly Father and ABSOLUTELY ONE with you.
For those who refuse to believe the lies of the world that they’re an orphan, they seek what is real and true. They look closer at how to meet their deepest need of being loved and feeling like they are home. Get to know Jesus from the Gospels (read Matthew, Mark, Luke or John in the Bible) and not only will you find your true love… you will also find your TRUE HOME.
I have already prayed for you, dear sister or brother in Christ. Your journey has begun, and your pace is quickening rapidly… SEE YOU AT HOME.
(Originally posted on Facebook, June 1, 2026)