My Father's House

When our kids were teenagers our family went out to California on vacation. Out in the Los Angeles area they were selling maps of Hollywood homes. We decided that we would get one of those maps and we would go out to Hollywood and we would drive back into some of those residential areas where the Hollywood stars lived. We drove out there and we saw the home of John Wayne and Doris Day and Rita Hayworth and Stewart Grainger and Eddie Albert and Vincent Price and Pat Boone and Ann Margaret. And as you can well believe, some of those homes were unbelievable, palatial mansions. And I saw some of those three-story homes with their circular driveways and their iron gates and flower gardens and swimming pools. As we would go from house to house I thought to myself, my Father's house is better than this. We'd go to the next house and I'd say, my Father's house is better than this. We'd go to the next house and I'd say, my Father's house is better than this house.

You see, in my Father's house are many mansions. My heavenly Father is fabulously rich. He has all of the resources of the universe at His disposal. But now listen, if God isn't your Father, you are not rich. But if God is your Father, since He is rich, you are rich too. I am talking about the riches of the redeemed. Friend, if you are not redeemed don't jump up and down and say, "Praise the Lord, I'm rich," because this is all in the family.