“For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - 1 Chronicles 29v15
David had a marvellous perspective on his life on earth. Although he was preparing the nation to build a very visible physical temple, we reminded them that we are but “strangers and sojourners” or “aliens and pilgrims” in this world and that our visit here was like a shadow, where do one truly abides.
The New Testament also carries this same theme - our life is only a vapour that appears for a little while then vanishes away. We tend to set so much on what is here on earth. We set our affection on things below. We live like this sojourning place is our permanent abode and so we spend most of our lives preparing for our life here.
As Christians our true citizenship is in heaven. We must make daily provision for our life here, but we do well to remember the good old gospel song – “This world is not my home, I just a passing through. My treasures are laid out, somewhere beyond the blue. The angels beckon me through heaven’s open door and I can’t feel at home in this world anymore.”
Are you homesick for heaven?
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