" . . . [F]or you are strangers and sojourners with Me."
What a fascinating thought: God's people, down here, are pilgrims and travelers "WITH" The Lord. This is why the tabernacle first, and later the temple, and finally the New Covenant church must be at the *center* of the believers' lives.
What a comfort, to know that our God traverses this world *with* us.
In this sense, we're already home, since we already have our Redeem-
er in our midst. Still, one day the trials of this life will be rolled away; and we will behold, *with* our precious Savior, the celestial city, in all its glory. Until that day, let us keep our eyes on Jesus, the Goal--knowing that arriving fully home will only seem like a small final step along the way.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Let us proclaim it boldly--the man who is not inflamed with divine love is an outsider to all theology!" --John Owen, in the Epistolary section of "Biblical Theology"]
