Where is your citizenship? Do you ascribe to being a citizen of the country you live in? Do you consider yourself a patriot of your country? Are you willing to step away from that citizenship for something better? Will you consider yourself to be a citizen of heaven?
Many people are patriotic about their country. They take great pride in being a citizen of their country. Some take their pride very seriously. Seriously enough to put their lives on the line. Others are less concerned about their citizenship. But should we take our citizenship seriously?
We should take our citizenship in heaven very serious. We must remember that our citizenship in heaven is because of Jesus. His work while on this earth bought us that citizenship. Not only do we have that citizenship, but we look forward to the transformation of our bodies so that our bodies will same the glory of Jesus.
Through the power of Jesus will be transformed and by His power we will live forever. We will be His subjects while also being His brothers and sisters. We will rule the nations along with Him. We will feast at His heavenly banquet. Jesus will provide everything we need and be our focus for eternity.
Can we ask for anything more? No. We may long for everything in this world to go as we desire but know it won’t. We may support the country we live but know it is not our home. We may seek to achieve success in this life but know true success is knowing we belong to Jesus. Our challenge is to keep Jesus as our focus in this life.
I pray we all know we have citizenship in heaven. I pray we know we will be transformed in glory. I pray each one of us will keep our focus on Jesus throughout our lives. You have citizenship in heaven. You will be transformed in glory. Keep your focus on Jesus.
Philippians 3:20-21 But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also enables him to make all things subject to himself.
Marty Pressey 