Jesus tells us that he and his Father will come to us and make their home with us (John 14: 23).  I suppose we all have our ideas of what home is.  Even so, we can all agree that home means belonging. And belonging is one of the most important things in human life. We find our true identity in knowing we belong. This is not so strong in our individualistic culture. We find our identity in what we acquire, how we appear, or what we achieve.  But this kind of individual identity is always lacking and the human heart cries out for belonging.  Who we are and what our lives mean is found in belonging to someone or something.  True identity is communal and relational.

Father, Son and Spirit belong together.  The Son belongs to the Father as the one who lives in the Father by the Spirit.  And the Father belongs to the Son in the same way.  They belong to one another as they mutually indwell one another in self-giving love.  We might say the Triune Communion is the perfect home in which the three persons belong to one another.

Jesus tells us we belong because Father and Son have made their home with us in the Spirit.  In that belonging, we know who we are.  Or is it not better to say that we find who we are in this belonging by knowing whose we are?  We belong to Father and Son and they belong to us.  They make their home with us and we find our home in them.