Friday, March 16, 2007
Citizenship
I just LOVE reading Spurgeon. He's so easy to understand and the truth that he presents and expounds on are so comforting and encouraging. So I hope you don't mind me posting lots of his quotes. I hope you find them as encouraging as I.
I know Nick and Amy have this incredible hassle, as others have, of gathering all the documentation they need to file for visa's, passports, and in the future THE GREEN CARD. Going from one country to another to live, all the changes and unfamiliarities, many can emapthize. You do feel a stranger. But no matter where I am, I have a hard time not feeling an alien. I find it uncomfortable talking to ppl when I go out. They even look at us weird. Why?
Spurgeon has a great and easy explanation:
Psalm 39:12 "I am a stranger with thee."
"All my natural alienation from Thee, Thy grace has effectually removed; and now, in fellowship with Thyself, I walk through this sinful world as a pilgrim in a foreign country."THOU art a stranger in THINE own world. It's no marvel, then, if I who live the life of Jesus, should be unknown and a stranger here below. Lord, I would not be a citizen where Jesus was an alien.
But, here is the sweetness of my lot: I am a stranger with Thee. Thou art my fellow-sufferer, my fellow-pilgrim. .......and though I be a sojourner, I am far more blest than those who sit on the thrones, and far more at home than those who dwell in their ceiled houses." (emphasis added KD)
How wonderful that we are not left alone to journey through this life by ourselves and not left without HIS empathies as aliens.
I know Nick and Amy have this incredible hassle, as others have, of gathering all the documentation they need to file for visa's, passports, and in the future THE GREEN CARD. Going from one country to another to live, all the changes and unfamiliarities, many can emapthize. You do feel a stranger. But no matter where I am, I have a hard time not feeling an alien. I find it uncomfortable talking to ppl when I go out. They even look at us weird. Why?
Spurgeon has a great and easy explanation:
Psalm 39:12 "I am a stranger with thee."
"All my natural alienation from Thee, Thy grace has effectually removed; and now, in fellowship with Thyself, I walk through this sinful world as a pilgrim in a foreign country."THOU art a stranger in THINE own world. It's no marvel, then, if I who live the life of Jesus, should be unknown and a stranger here below. Lord, I would not be a citizen where Jesus was an alien.
But, here is the sweetness of my lot: I am a stranger with Thee. Thou art my fellow-sufferer, my fellow-pilgrim. .......and though I be a sojourner, I am far more blest than those who sit on the thrones, and far more at home than those who dwell in their ceiled houses." (emphasis added KD)
How wonderful that we are not left alone to journey through this life by ourselves and not left without HIS empathies as aliens.
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