Faith & Love: A One Year Bible Reading Plan - Part 2Sample

When you are a citizen of a country, that means you are legally allowed to live in that country and are also granted full rights. Citizenship is a legal recognition that you belong to a specific country and have the rights and protection of that country.

Unfortunately, so many times, as children of God, we forget that even though we live on earth and in a specific country, our ultimate citizenship is not here but in heaven.

That means our goal and focus on earth should not be to gather or collect an earthly inheritance or live for fame and glory but rather to live as people who know that our ultimate home is heaven. We know that our earthly life is only temporary.

That also means as we read in Phil 3:20 in the Amplified, that we should live differently than people that do not yet know Christ. We think and act from another perspective.

It says: "But [we are different, because] our citizenship is in heaven and from there we eagerly await [the coming of] the Savior the Lord Jesus Christ."

The wonderful thing about heavenly citizenship is that it is not obtained through what we can do or who we are but because of who Christ is and what He has done. Through the finished work on the cross, we become heirs of the Kingdom. Our temporary earthly citizenship is exchanged for a heavenly everlasting one.

It is, therefore, important that we live our lives as ambassadors of our heavenly citizenship and that our lives display that this is only our temporary home. Let us live like people that represent God’s Kingdom.