“I am a stranger in the earth….” Psalms 119:19
Bev, my wife, sings a song that says–
We’re not home yet children
So keep your eyes on the savior
Just a few more days to labor
And we’ll sit down beside the river
How we long to be with Jesus
And our loved ones gone before us
There’s a better day a comin’
We’re not home yet
That’s something every Christian needs to think about! I can remember my mother singing “This world is not my home” while hanging clothes on the clothesline. It didn’t mean anything to me until years later when I trusted Christ as my Savior. I love the way James Smith spoke of this subject:
“Beloved, we are strangers and pilgrims in the earth, as all our fathers were; our days are as a shadow, and there is no abiding. We are born from above and are bound for glory. We are distant from home, where our kindred, our treasure, and our hearts are found. Here we have no fixed residence; nor should we have any fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. We are called to submit to many inconveniences. The Bible is our light, our food, our joy, and our directory. We want a guide, a guard, a companion, a comforter; but Jesus has engaged to fill each of these offices. We should pray for the peace of the country where we sojourn; we should not be meddlers with its concerns, but keep ourselves detached, we should be thankful for every advantage, but set and keep our affections on things above; we should neither be impatient nor reluctant in reference to going home, but submit to our Father’s will; we should consider ill-treatments permitted to do us good; and contrast the present with our own beloved country and home.”
There is my house and portion fair,
My treasure and my heart are there,
And my abiding home;
For me my elder brethen stay,
And angels beckon me away
And Jesus bids me come.
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
