God has a long history of blessing people by giving them homes. The Israelites in Canaan … Joseph and Mary in Egypt … Jacob’s son Joseph in Egypt after his brothers threw him down a well … Even Abraham was called away from Ur to the promise of a new home. 

But homes aren’t always nice. After all, for a few years, Joseph also called a jail cell home after he was wrongly accused. And Jonah lived for days in the belly of a big fish.

Your homeland is a gift from God. But the evil in this world sometimes thwarts and corrupts that. The devil diligently strives to destroy our homes. If he can disrupt our homes, he hopes to ruin our relationship with the Father. Remember what he did to Job?

The Fourth of July is an ideal time to thank God if you have a good homeland … or in the U.S., a free country. What a blessing! Just like Job or Jonah, this isn’t the case for everyone. And we should continually pray for those whose homelands or countries are ravaged by war, politics, or disease.

Praise God for giving us a country where we can worship him and live our lives in relative freedom and peace.

“By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures” (Proverbs 24:3,4).