This Isn’t Home. Yet.

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today

May 16, 2025

This Isn’t Home. Yet.

The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. 

I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you.

John 15:19 

In two weeks, we will mark our thirteenth anniversary of moving from Florida to Western North Carolina. Six months later we had purchased and moved into our home. This was a super big deal for us. We had lived together in church parsonages all our married life. Now we have our own home. Seldom a week goes by without me telling Cheryl, “I love our home!” That phrase has become more poignant in recent months as we are contemplating the need to downsize and move, perhaps to a retirement community in two or three years.

The Apostle Paul embraced Jesus’ statement quoted above we he wrote, “But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior.” (Philippians 3:20) Some have commented on this verse and noted that we are sojourners now, resident aliens, but our citizenship is in heaven with Jesus. Some even have gone so far as to say this, our earthly experience, is not our home. Well, not exactly. Our citizenship is with Jesus, so where Jesus is, is our home. As Paul noted, “. . . we are eagerly waiting for him to return . . .” We may die and go to Jesus in heaven, but when he comes again in Final Victory, we will be with him, here in our home with Jesus.

My Takeaway: Recently, I saw a photograph of three Christians in Africa. The photograph captured the moment they were executed. Executed for being a Christian. Jesus was correct, the world hates us. Even so, we are called to stay in God’s grace for today. I am helped in this by joining with Paul and eagerly waiting for Jesus to return. Maranatha, come Lord Jesus.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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