A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

The 'unbeliever' feels at home in this world. His heart wrongly affirms ‘This is all there is to life and I am content to do with it as I will'. Though the emptiness in his soul prompts him to believe in the Creator, he chooses instead to go his own way. 

On the other hand, there is a 'pilgrim spirit' at the core of every true believer's divinely imparted hope. Christians know with certainty that they are 'sojourners' here. Their home and inheritance are in heaven ... and they anxiously look forward to being with Jesus.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. Philippians 3:20-21

If you are a follower of Christ, you sense that this world is foreign to you. Hold onto it loosely ...  

Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal. Matthew 6:19-20

If what took place on Calvary is the object of your daily contemplation; this world is 'crucified' unto you. Its allure fades in the light of future glory. 

But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.  Galatians 6:14

Live every day with 'bags packed', ready to move on when God leads ... and eager to vacate this world when He calls you home.