Our True Home

There’s an old saying in the Christian culture that goes: He/She is so heavenly-minded that they’re no earthly good.  I disagree with that statement.  In fact, I believe a more true and accurate statement would be: He/She is so earthly-minded that they’re no earthly good.

I think that on occasion we all fall victim to everyday life with its troubles and circumstances and we fail to see a subtle shift in our perspective. 

It’s a shift that takes our focus and trust off of God and centers it on self. Life becomes less about our relationship with God and living for Him and more about what we’re dealing with and our lack of time for anything else.

I believe that if we would all be more deliberate in our personal walk with the Lord, daily inviting His grace and mercy into our lives, focusing on the promise of heaven that awaits us, we’d be more inclined to not hold our troubles on such a higher priority than that of serving others before ourselves.

Yes, right now, we live on earth and because we do we must live with the things that God allows or doesn’t allow in our lives.

But, let’s not forget that we have dual citizenship. We hold the promise of a truer citizenship and place than that which we now live. That place is heaven.  And one day, God will take us from our temporary home, here on earth, and will bring us home to be with Him for all eternity.  How amazing is that!

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

Dina Pugh