Protecting your Soul while living the demands of the Suburbs

Protecting your Soul while living the demands of the Suburbs

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Jeff Lampl

You and I are citizens of the United States. We are Americans. When I used to travel. . . . 

with students to Germany for a month each year, it was obvious to everyone that I was an American. 

Read  Philippians 1: 27-28  (click on the passage and the scripture will appear)

The way I walked, thought, and, in the opinion of the Germans, my simplistic, naïve view of the world confirmed that I wasn’t ‘one of them’. 

Oh well.  I still did my best to be the best member of their school and local community I could be.  I also tried to be the best representative of America that I could be, unsuccessful as I think I probably was.  

The point of course is that if you are a believer you are a citizen heaven.   This is the very same heaven that will one day be merged with earth and will be your future home.   My task on earth is to maintain my citizenship in heaven, living out its expectations and joys in such a way that others seek citizenship in heaven as well.    I

Even more fundamentally I often ask myself if the life I am living now is one that will “fit” in the new eternal world to come?   How would you answer that question about your own life?

If you feel somehow disconnected from this world as your home, well, of course, you’re not home yet.  But you need to spend the time you have to practice living now as you will be living then.

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