Today's encouragement comes from Leviticus 25:23b, where Moses wrote this, under God's inspiration:
" . . . [F]or you are strangers and sojourners with Me."What a fascinating thought: God's people, down here, are pilgrims and trav-elers *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 true be-lievers' lives.
What a comfort, to know that our God traverses this world *with* us. In this sense, we are already home, since we already have our Redeemer in our midst. Still, one day the trials of this life will be rolled away; and we will be-hold, *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 in-flamed with divine love is an outsider to all theology!” —John Owen, in the Epistolary section of "Biblical Theology"]
