murrecat: Real Estate

"The most valuable real estate on the planet is the human heart."

This weekend I got to see the most breathtakingly beautiful real estate in all of New Zealand.

Milford Sound.

It was my birthday weekend and the couple I'm staying with plus my good friend packed in the car and had an unforgettable weekend in Oropuki and Milford Sound, stopping along the way to see Mirror Lake, the Chasm, TeAno, and take a ferry tour of the Sound. I was spoiled like royalty with Ele's custard squares, English tea sandwiches, silverside, peanut butter and tim-tams, riveting rounds of Clue, a hot roaring fire in the cabin, popcorn, movies, open skies and wide seas. I tasted the crown jewel and the inner courts of New Zealand.

Real estate. Lush, delectable, rich. Black soil, fluffy livestock, salty seas and snowcapped peaks.

And yet--in the midst of this delightful feast, The Lord whispered to me that the human heart is the most precious real estate of all, the most breathtaking of ALL of His creation.

God desires to win favour in the hearts of man. Not in edifices of red brick and grey stone, but in flesh and blood, the circumcision of the heart refined as fine gold through the baptism of salvation and spirit.

And this property is found everywhere, not just in the verdant landscapes. In nursing homes. Orphanages. Corporate offices and universities. It is found in preschools, hospitals, night clubs. It is found in prisons, Catholic Churches, opera houses. In Africa. Bombay. Brazil. New Orleans. Fargo. Syria. In bus stations and Wall Street. Even in Washington, D.C. In abortion clinics and tattoo parlors.

This real estate is everywhere because human hearts are everywhere, desperate to be redeemed. Until we are saved by grace through a professed faith in Jesus, our hearts' titles have a lien by the enemy satan. God paid the highest price to redeem us. and we get to exchange our shackles for God's royal signet ring.

The heart is the best real estate of all. God longs to dwell with man. Emmanuel, God with us.

If you haven't invited Jesus to be your Lord and Savior, why not do it today?