PHILIPPIANS 1:27
"Above all, you must live as CITIZENS OF HEAVEN, conducting yourselves in a manner worthy of the Good News about Christ."
May I see your passport please? What is your home country? Where is it that you consider yourself a citizen? Many of us are proud to be a citizen of the United States of America and we act accordingly. Some of us remember that we are merely pilgrims that are passing through this time and space and that we have a different home that we long for. We may take a designation as a citizen of a country here on earth, but heaven is our home and our destination. We are just passing through, for we are really CITIZENS OF HEAVEN!
The truth for today is that as citizens of whatever country here on earth, we must conduct ourselves in such a way that our life will be worthy of the Good News of Jesus Christ and His Gospel. The Lord wants us to stand firm in a united spirit and purpose, striving to stand together with one voice and mind in our faith, so that others will know of our true citizenship. Our conversations must be ones that are becoming to the gospel of Christ. The Lord wants to hear of our striving together, in one faith.
May I see your passport? The Holy Spirit is your heavenly passport. What is your home country? Heaven is your true and real home and you are a citizen of His kingdom. Where do you consider yourself a citizen? So many are caught up in this life that they fail to look up where there redemption will come from. We tend to cling to the things of this life and fail to realize that we bring nothing in and will bring nothing out. We indeed will have a new life in a new kingdom and that will not be temporary but everlasting and without blemishes. You may have a temporary passport to your temporary country but you are really CITIZENS OF HEAVEN!
