tents

So this week my kids' memory verse was Hebrews 11:6.

"Pesonn pa ka fè Bondye plezi si li pa gen konfyans nan Bondye."

(Without faith it is impossible to please God.)

Was reading through Hebrews 11. As you probably know, this is a chapter that discusses a bunch of people in the Bible show displayed great faith, Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Moses... (and on and on it goes.)

These people were the faith rockstars.

One passage in this chapter really hit me this morning:

⁸ By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. ⁹ By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

In one way or another, we are all strangers in this world. Whether or not we feel at home in our home (wherever that may be), the truth is that we were not made for this world. The aching and the longing. The being a stranger. The living in substandard housing... All of that is an opportunity not to be discontent with life, but to look forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.