Nomads

What are you looking forward to? What are you striving for that may take many years to accomplish? Are you living in temporary mode or permanent mode? Do you know you have an inheritance waiting for you? Are you looking forward to it?

We look forward to many things. We may look forward to a wedding, birth of a child, purchasing a new house, starting a new job, or retirement. We work hard to achieve those things and maintaining them. Not that those things aren’t important, but they are temporary.

We see in today’s passage that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob all looked forward to the city of God. They lived in tents, seeking the permanent city God has created for us. Notice that they lived in tents. Our misconception may be that living in tents was how everyone lived. That was not the case. There were cities with homes, palaces, buildings housing businesses, and walls around those cities. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob lived as nomads who were waiting for God to fulfill his promises.

Today, we live in homes. We spend a ton of money on them. We plant flower beds, remodel them, and decorate them. Why? It is our instinct that is searching for the perfect home that only God can provide. We don’t need to live in tents as Abraham did. We do need to change our mindset of thinking our homes are permanent. Our attitude should be that everything in this world is temporary. There is only one permanent city, and that is the city of God.

I pray we realize everything on this earth is temporary. I pray we seek the city of God. I pray each one of us will put our faith into action and change our attitude to constantly be looking forward to God fulfilling his promise. Know we are living in the temporary. Seek the city of God. Put your faith into action. Change your attitude. Look forward to God fulfilling his promise.

Hebrews 11:9-10 By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.