Do any of you ever feel strange about your role, about your purpose, about yourself? Do you ever have multiple moments when you have your senses about you to recognize you are alive, but you feel strange regarding the next move? I do.....a lot. I love what I do, who I know, where I am, and Who leads me. Then why do I/we have strong and repeated awareness that for some reason we don't fit....wherever we are?
When these foggy moments arise I believe we are experiencing our alienation from this world. We are aliens in search of The City. While we read our citizenship is in heaven, such doesn't logically register in the mind. Gravity seems to have it's fleshly pull. The truth is we participate here, but don't belong. Just as when traveling to be with a friend in another city and on the way to their home from the airport they want to drop a gift of for a shower that evening. You walk in to an unfamiliar house with complete strangers preparing for the evening event. You recognize they are humans. You have it within you to connect in courtesy. Yet, you feel estranged as you don't really belong.
I cheer you on. We are not these big-deal religious guys who've nailed the life and times of Jesus to the point of idealism. However, we have hung around him long enough to know he didn't fit in here and, when we thought we always would, we find we don't either.
Feeling weird about being you lately? It may not be that you are doing anything wrong or need to do something more. It just may be you are finally realizing something right: becoming increasingly attached to the glories of heavenly citizenshippery!
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.
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