Bible Reading: John 17:16 (NKJV)
Imagine that you are taking a trip to a country where you’ve never gone before. You don’t know the language. The customs are unfamiliar. You’ve left your family behind. You
don’t even have a place that you can call, “home.” You are a foreigner in a foreign land.
What are you thinking and feeling?
Those thoughts and feelings are an inkling of what Jesus thought and felt when He left His home and His Father in heaven to come to earth.
While Jesus as God knew all about life on earth, the sinful language and customs of earth were totally different from the holy, selfless ones of heaven. Everything on earth was very, very different from the life Jesus had lived in heaven. Jesus said, “They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.” Jesus was a foreigner in a foreign land.
As a Christian, you, too, are a foreigner here on earth. Heaven is your real home. That’s why the sad, painful, and evil things that happen here don’t make sense to you.
Someday, like Jesus, you will go home to heaven. When you do, everything will make sense.
“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.” Philippians 3:20 & 21
Prayer: Heavenly Father, sometimes things that happen here are so confusing. I’m looking forward to being home in heaven where everything makes sense. In Jesus’ name. Amen.