Where is your true home?

What is our position as Christians in the world? How does God see us and how should we see ourselves? Peter writes in 1 Peter 2:11 that we are strangers here and without citizenship. In the world, but not of the world, as Jesus Christ says in John 17.

A stranger does not put down roots here. And someone who belongs to a heavenly world does not make friends with the world hostile to God that still surrounds us.

God has sent us into the world to pass on the gospel as God's messengers. Our lives shall shine here as lights from heaven - in the midst of people who do not know God.

We must never forget that our true home is heaven, as Paul writes:

"But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ" (Phil. 3:20). While we serve the living God, we live here on packed suitcases, so to speak. We expect Jesus Christ to return at any time and take us to heaven - to our true home, where everything is eternal and everlasting!

J.P.S.