13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14Those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own. 15If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
Those of us in Jesus Christ, our home, our citizenship is in heaven.
Earth is a temporary home and when we reach the end of our life here, then we go to our eternal home in heaven.
Are you longing for a better country?
I long for the heavenly one, I long for the heavenly city God has prepared for us!
I acknowledge that I am a stranger and exile on the earth!
i. We often consider the idea that we should not be ashamed of God, but we must also consider that we may make God ashamed of us. When we do not regard God and heaven and eternity as real, there can be a sense in which God is ashamed to be called our God. (Guzik)
Is God ashamed to be called YOUR God?
Blessings, David
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