SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 11:14-16 NIV People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
THOUGHT: If you feel like a stranger and foreigner these days, you aren’t alone. I sometimes feel like the fabled Rip Van Winkle, who goes to sleep and wakes up 20 years later, completely bewildered. The good news – if I allow it to drift past my fear and distress – is that not recognizing the world means I am looking for a country “of my own,” one I do recognize; one that feels like home, where order and beauty intertwine, and justice is so prevalent it doesn’t need a name. All the melodies that haunt me, the ones I can’t quite catch, belong to that country.
I could go backwards, the writer of Hebrews says – there is an opportunity to return. To tune my radio, TV, computer, cell, or GPS to the old places I recognized and respond to a lesser song. But my heart wants to press on for the country I am longing for and have been all my life – even when I didn’t recognize it as such.
SONG: Heaven Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PsgGW5N1fs
PRAYER: To see the city you have prepared is, and has always been, the deepest longing of my heart. Maybe I was looking for something else that would satisfy, but I was always wrong.
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This reminds me of carp that eat garbage from the bottom of a pond, sometimes even when you’re tossing fresh food onto the surface. They are so used to eating from the bottom that they never look up and miss something better.
Feeling out of place myself here lately, thanks for a timely message.
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