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Honey From The Rock Psalm 81:16 |
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IN FAITH THEY DIED, Part 3 This entry was posted on 04-17-2009 and is filed under FAITH. "For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland" (Heb. 11:14 NKJV).
We have to go back to verse 13 to see what the believers were saying. "[They] confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." They recognized this truth and freely admitted that they were sojourners - "strangers who had no permanent home on earth" (Beck). Can we do that? The believers of Hebrews 11 also declared plainly that they were seeking a "homeland." I remember reading Exodus by Leon Uris, a novel about the plight of the Jews who wanted to return to Israel. After overcoming many obstacles and hardships they finally made it. Israel became a nation in 1948. The "homeland" you and I are seeking is a heavenly homeland. Not long ago my friend Lynn Anderson wrote a book, Longing for a Homeland. Chapter 16 is titled "Home Is Where God Is." I like that. And old Stamps-Baxter song says, "Anywhere is 'home, sweet home' if Christ my Lord is there." We are all strangers and pilgrims on earth. As believers we are seeking a homeland - not a return to the Middle East but a home with God. Hymn: "Walking alone at eve and viewing the skies afar, bidding the darkness come to welcome each silver star; I have a great delight in the wonderful scenes above; God in His power and might is showing His truth and love. O! for a home with God, a place in His courts to rest; sure in a safe abode with Jesus and the blest; rest for a weary soul once redeemed by the Savior's love, where I'll be pure and whole and live with my God above!" (Thomas R. Sweatmon). See Psalm 141:2 |
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