DIVINE CITIZENSHIP

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

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

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

There’s a lot of talk about illegal aliens today. A lot.

Of course, the discussion is around people coming into one country where they had citizenry into another that they don’t. Currently, this involves the southern border of the United States and those coming from other countries, Mexico and below, to seek a better life than the one they had. These migrants are usually treated with disdain and a spirit of rejection. The issue is so great that it has elevated to being politicized, one party choosing a side to oppose the other.

So what’s the right answer here? How should people feel about those who leave one place to hopefully find a more favorable place to live?

As Christians, perhaps we should remember that we all abide in a land that is not our real home.

It’s true, right?

When we accept Jesus as Savior, we experience a change in our citizen status. We are in the world, abiding in a country and specific location within it, but we are not really of it. We’re merely here temporarily, a waypoint to our final home.

Need scriptural support for this?

Look no further than the final two verses of Philippians, chapter 3, as the Apostle Paul writes these words to the Christian believers in Philippi:

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. Vv. 20-21

A day is coming when Jesus will return and all those who placed their belief in Him will be ushered into heaven, their eternal home. This is because all Christian believers are citizens, not of the United States or any other nation but of heaven. And when Jesus, the Savior of the world, comes back, He will transform our “lowly bodies” through His omnipotent power and make them glorious like His.  

I don’t know about you but I get chills just thinking about this.

What a comfort to know that I am just passing through this world as I wait for the better place prepared for me, a room in the mansion that Jesus promised. For now, I am an illegal alien in this world and it should come as little surprise that worldly people, the citizens of the earth who are not in Christ, would love it if I and my fellow Christians would go somewhere else and live...kind of what is happening to those who are trying to leave one land in a quest for a more favorable life elsewhere.

Maybe when we think about the current issue through the lens of Jesus and heaven, we can develop a greater sense of compassion for those who are passing through, praying and hoping for an improved life than the one they have.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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