This World Is Not Home -- We're All Migrants

Our father, Abraham, was a "sojourner," a migrant as we would say nowadays. 

He and his wife Sarah left their original home and travelled through places they had never been before. By faith, their hope was to receive a homeland that had no origin in human aspirations or construction. Rather, they looked ahead, not behind, to receive a homeland designed, conceived, and created by God.

By faith we, who have believed in Christ, are also migrants. Our home is not here, but rests in the heart of God. Therefore, though we live on this planet, though we have learned values based on the things of this world, we pursue those things no longer. Rather, we long for righteousness, mercy, and love, values grounded in the kingdom of God. We look ahead, not behind, for Abraham's real homeland, too.