Read Hebrews 11:8-16
God’s people, in this world, walk by faith and not by sight. Glorification comes when faith becomes sight. Then we are home at last! Freed from a world of wickedness and a body of weakness, fitted for our real home in Heaven!
It was that promise this sustained the patriarchs like Abraham, his wife Sarah, Isaac and Jacob. They moved from place to place, living in tents, nomads without a permanent dwelling. Nor did they need one. Their confession of faith was that they were just pilgrims passing through. The city they looked for was the New Jerusalem above. They lived and died in faith and the moment they closed their eyes here, they opened them in glory!
No earthly carpenter here can construct what the Eternal Carpenter of Nazareth has built in Heaven above! Jesus promised He would go to prepare a place for us, and when ready will return to move us in with Him (see John 14:1-3).
Practically speaking, this hope for tomorrow makes a difference in the way we live today. It helps us resist the allure of the material world and the pleasures of sin which are but for a season, and sharpens our focus while fueling our passion for the world to come. Our eyes are on the prize and, like Abraham, there is no turning back.
Of such people this is said, “Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.” What a day that will be!
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