Homesick

written inwards 2013...

After nine weeks inwards Europe doing Christian ministry, I'm homesick. 

I honey Budapest ... it's a beautiful urban center in addition to nosotros bring or in addition to hence beautiful friends here. 

I'm in all likelihood to a greater extent than comfortable than nigh people beingness away from abode since I've lived inwards to a greater extent than than twoscore homes inwards the U.S. in addition to Europe. But I nonetheless drib dead homesick. 

And sometimes I drib dead homesick for sky too. I'm longing for a abode where there's no sin, suffering, in addition to confusion, a abode alongside my truthful identify unit of measurement in addition to my Perfect Father. 

Do you lot e'er experience heavenly homesickness? 

If so, 1 Peter 2:11-12 tells us what to do: "As aliens in addition to strangers inwards the world...abstain from sinful desires ... Live such expert lives amid the pagans that ... they may come across your expert deeds in addition to glorify God." 

As nosotros move through this earth, Let's alive lives that brand others homesick too.

When nosotros supply to United States of America a calendar week from today, we'll operate out behind many fond memories of this 2013 Budapest trip.

A Banknote On The Refrigerator

When going somewhere special, I mightiness set a Federal Reserve annotation on my refrigerator every bit a reminder.

We Christ-followers withdraw to hang this Federal Reserve annotation on our fridge: "This the world is non our home. We are going somewhere special."

We convey sorry reminders of this truth: death, decay, destruction, in addition to discouragement remind us that mankind brought sin into our the world in addition to forthwith something is terribly incorrect amongst it.

We every bit good convey happy reminders: the beauty of nature constantly proclaims God's divine nature, telling us that 1 24-hour interval nosotros volition alive inward sky surrounded solely yesteryear goodness in addition to beauty (Romans 1:20). 

God's Word is merely about other reminder, explaining why we're broken, how nosotros tin give the axe survive restored to God hither in addition to now, in addition to how nosotros tin give the axe pass eternity inward heaven. 

We withdraw these reminders (1 Peter 2:11-12). 

"For this the world is non our permanent home; nosotros are looking forrad to a habitation notwithstanding to come." Hebrews 13:14
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Keep Your Tourist Visa

When nosotros did Christian operate inwards Hungary, nosotros had to teach residency permits as well as thence nosotros could alive in that place full-time.

Living inwards a province gives you lot a unlike perspective than vacationing. You teach a role of the culture.

But when it comes to spiritual things, nosotros Christians must never surrender our "tourist visas" or try to "fit in" alongside the world. Our existent citizenship is inwards heaven  (Hebrews 11:13-16). 

Our troubles inwards this public are temporary (John 16:33).  Our earthly treasures are temporary (Matthew 6:19-20). When nosotros recollect this, our perspective changes (Colossians 3:2).

That's why it's of import that nosotros occasionally inquire ourselves:
If a stranger looked at my lifestyle would he intend I was a citizen or foreigner inwards this world?

Let's non surrender eternal rewards for temporary pleasures.
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