Mon., 4/21/14 Devotion (Lev. 25:23)

Today's encouragement comes from Leviticus 25:23, where we read these in-teresting words:

"The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me."

One of the fascinating things about this verse (above) is that it says that we are "sojourners with [God].” Is that not a profound thought? As we traverse this sod of the world down here, the Lord Himself is with us. This is the "Im-manuel" principle, that we celebrate relative to Christ's abiding with His church on earth.

God owns the whole world, and He has purchased His church from within it. Believers are "strangers and sojourners" here--but we have already been giv-en a permanent home (in Christ). Let us take comfort and encouragement from the fact that our Savior is with us through thick and thin.

[Puritan quote of the day: "You will certainly be accepted of the Father if your soul lays hold of Jesus Christ." --Jonathan Edwards, in the book, "On Know-ing Christ"]