I have been faithfully entering the HGTV Dream Home Sweepstakes for 5 years and counting. I am not typically one to enter contests, but there is something about this one. I am so in to homes and decor that this contest is my thing. I secretly see myself winning each year and make plans in my head as to how I will move all my things to my new home. What I will keep and take with me and what I will give away. These dream homes come loaded with practically everything one needs to keep a home, so really all that you need to bring with you are personal effects, such as pictures and memorabilia and clothes. Oh yes, your wardrobe. These closets are fit for a king and are empty awaiting your garb. This years dream home is set in Sonoma California; a most beautiful place. The grounds around the home are perfectly manicured, landscaped to the hilt. They include a vegetable garden and an herb garden and flowers galore. It is prime growing country. There is plenty of room for entertaining inside and outside this home. I know our family would have a blast living there, at least for a while.
As much as I would love to win this home, I must admit, it would be quite an ordeal to uproot our lives and just take off to Sonoma. We would have to consider jobs, schools, friends and family. I heard that most people who win these homes, sell them, because they don't want to change locations and the taxes on their winnings, make it almost impossible to keep. As I was pondering these things this week, I believe God brought to my mind another Dream Home. My Dream Home in heaven or as some call it, my Mansion. First I wondered, am I as apt to think about my mansion each day, as I have been that dream home in Sonoma? Am I as motivated to register for my home in glory as I have been to register to win this home on earth. I have been known to put a sticky note on my laptop as a reminder to enter my name in the dream home drawing. Do I put that much effort in my preparation for the dream home that is already mine? You see when I gave my life to Christ and He became my Lord, I won the real, Dream Home Sweepstakes. Immediately, I had my Mansion next door to Jesus. There was no hoping to win, keeping my fingers crossed, competing with other entries. Nor will there be any disappointment, when that day comes. No one else will take my dream home away from me. Or win it instead of me. He has already signed the property deed and He put my name on it. And the great news....there are plenty of Dream Homes to be had. No one has to be disappointed. No one has to lose. John 14:2 says "In my Father's house, there are many mansions..." Many mansions. A gift to those who ask Jesus to be Lord of their life and follow Him. Fully equipped with everything one would need to keep a home. Beyond breathtaking, perfectly manicured gardens. Trees with twelve types of fruit on them each month. Rivers that flow clear as crystal. I could go on and on. Read it for yourself in Revelation chapters 21 and 22. It's truly amazing and truly a Dream Home beyond anything we could ever build or even think of, on earth. Our minds can not fully grasp what He has in store for us in the New Jerusalem. But let me tell you, I'm registered, my name is in the Book of Life, on that deed and I am ready to go in the blink of an eye. And I don't even need to pack. Glory!
Build My Mansion by Dottie Rambo
Just build my mansion next door to Jesus
And tell the angels I'm coming home
It doesn't matter who lives around me
Just so my mansion sits near God's throne
I have no castles no earthly kingdom
but my cabin will do 'til I get home
My mansions yonder on the hills of glory
Oh I know my mansion sits near God's throne
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