Genesis 23
Sojourner and Foreigner
“I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
The New Testament then picks up the language of sojourning and exile to describe what it means to live as a disciple of Christ before our own final restoration. “Beloved,” writes Peter, “I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul” (1 Pet. 2:11; cf. 1:1). “Our citizenship is in heaven,” says Paul (Phil. 3:20).
We are on this earth but not from this earth. My citizenship is in heaven the second I accepted Jesus into my heart. Even though, earth is where I am right now, a place, where it God sent me, to go through life on earth, so that through grace, I’m able to have a relationship with Him and get to know who He is, get to be in His presence. Do not be attached to this world, use my time to be with Him and get to know Him and worship Him.
Amen