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Excerpted from: Looking Back to the FutureWe are pilgrims. We are a people who are on the move. We are heirs, but we are not yet inheritors. We are not in the land yet, but we are journeying toward it. We are not yet fully saved. A pilgrim is a person who is out of his country. A pilgrim is a person who is in a foreign land. He is traveling through it; he is not intending on making that land his home. He is not intending on putting down roots, but he is heading somewhere else with a definite goal in mind.
A pilgrim is not a wanderer. He may not have a home, but he has a definite goal toward which he is going. It is entirely possible for a person to be a sojourner without being a pilgrim. You can be a person who is blown from pillar to post; that is what these people who have all these “miscellaneous” interests are. They are being blown all over the place, in every direction.
They are not purposely going toward the goal, which is the Kingdom of God. It is entirely possible, though, that a person will never become a pilgrim unless he first becomes a sojourner. Someone who of his own volition, the setting of his will, uproots himself from that which is familiar and heads out into territory not knowing exactly where he is going.
If you are getting the picture, I think you will begin to see and agree, that it will not be very long if he keeps sojourning that somebody is going to show him the picture more and more clearly.
I Peter 2:11
Excerpted from: Ecclesiastes and the Feast of Tabernacles (Part 1)As I said, it will ultimately be something that is of spiritual benefit to them, but right now it is of spiritual benefit to us. Having received the Spirit of God and a part of God's spiritual purpose, we have to understand ourselves as being on the move. We are a pilgrim. This earth, this nation, this area of the country is not to be considered by us as permanent. Even though we do not live in a tent that we can fold up and carry to another location, we are to understand that where we are now living is by God's design, intended by Him to be only a temporary dwelling place. We are a people on the move toward the Kingdom of God. The land in which we are now pilgrims is no longer to be considered our permanent residence.
I Peter 2:11
Excerpted from: Faithful Travelers on a Spiritual JourneyNow please turn back over to I Peter 2, verse 11. Peter's first epistle also refers to the called-out ones as travelers, and Peter addresses the Christian communities depicting them as pilgrims and strangers living as exiles because of social alienation, widespread societal persecution, and other things that our present culture does in the opposite direction of God's way of life.
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Excerpted from: Displaying a Good Conscience: PolitenessThis glorifies God. Others will eventually realize that only Christian living or Christ living in us allows us to be honest citizens, productive employees, and caring neighbors. They will realize that our way of life depends on God's love and help.
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