At the end of a long trip, home always looks appealing! Turning the corner and seeing the house you left days or weeks earlier can sometimes provide the best snapshot of the whole trip. The word home has a pleasant ring to it, and it’s a particularly beautiful word to hear after being away from it for a while.

While such an assertion makes sense after a weeklong vacation at a theme park, it makes even more sense after the long journey called life. For Christians, coming to the end of life’s journey doesn’t have to prompt a sense of dread and fear. Because of what we know about God’s love for us and his gift of eternal life in heaven, the end of our journey here can foster an invigorating awareness that home’s just around the corner.

Deuteronomy 34 gives us the moving story of Moses when …