We Are Strangers Upon Earth.

 Psa 39:12  Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 

A stranger, a sojourner.

Heb_11:13  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Strangers and pilgrims.

What does it mean to be a stranger, a sojourner, a pilgrim upon this earth? 

A sojourner is one who only stays in a place for a short period of time, a stranger is one who does not belong, a pilgrim is one who his making a special journey, a traveler.

If we are sojourning, strangers, and pilgrims upon this earth it means we do not belong to this earth, we are only here for a short time, we are traveling through this life because we know this is but a part of our lives, not the whole of it.  

HOW awful it must be to believe this sin sick world is the world we were intended for. HOW awful it must be to believe this world overrun with horrors is all there is for us. This world does NOT have enough joy of its own to be considered perfect in any way. This world was forfeit upon the acceptance of sin. As sin coated the entire world, changing its perfection into pain, all that would remain would be glimpses of the former sinless world. We are afforded the glimpses so we could be reminded of how it should have been, and how it will be again one day.

We are not supposed to make ourselves at home in this world. We are supposed to rage against the sin which has corrupted it in so many ways. Our rage will lead us to recognize that ONLY a new world without sin will fix all the problems this world has. THIS world MADE NEW! Not this world patched up and bandaged. Try as we might, mankind CANNOT FIX THIS WORLD!  

How much better off would we be if we recognized that we must treat this world as temporary to eternity. Loving each other, and doing all that we can through our Lord and Savior to give His love, while knowing He will return for us, and one day make this world new. Not treating the people of this world as hopeless, but loving them perfectly in Christ. Our hope isn't in this world, it's just not! Our hope must be in Christ! Our hope must be in our HEAVENLY HOME to come when Christ sounds the last trump! Until then, until that day we are STRANGERS, PILGRIMS, SOJOURNERS here upon this earth.  We must remember this, we must it's so important.

Psa 39:12  Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 

Please LORD, hear our prayers. 

Please LORD, give ear to our cries.

Please LORD, hold not your peace at our tears.

Please… Lord… please… we are strangers, we are sojourners…. Please we are with you in our pilgrimage as all those who are yours before us!

Please.