Today’s Thought “Red Shoes Worthy for the Journey” G. Ward

Hebrews 13:14

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

 

There perhaps are not many given over to a strange land, residing for sixty, seventy, eighty years therein, and not anticipate a return; particularly when that city is free of sufferings (*Rev.21:1-4). Moreover, if a promise of that return came from an Authoritative One – demanding implicit trust from the one exiled, a daily contemplation of home will witness the stranger compliant to the Landowner’s contingency plan (Luke 6:46).

The Landowner of Jesus’ discourse is God (cf. Matt.13:27, 20:1, 11, 21:33) and HE most assuredly is with All Authority in whether eternity includes you and me. We cannot however, celebrate this land’s practices, calling all blessings; especially when our Lord refuses association with darkness (cf. 2 Cor.6:14) – and calling (through insistence) our lives to reflect HIS (Eph.5:1).