Our citizenship is in heaven.
—Philippians 3:20
“You’re not from around here,” she said with a smile. My southern Texas drawl had given me away in northern Pennsylvania.
Paul told the Philippian brothers and sisters, and us, that we’re living a long way from the Christian capital—which you’ll be relieved to know is not Washington, London, Paris, or Moscow. We are citizens of a far grander place. Our citizenship is in heaven.
People should be able to tell by the way we walk and talk that we’re not from around here—that there’s something different about us. And that should cause us to ask a sobering question: What is my central devotion, the driving force of my life? Is it my profession? My portfolio? My passion? My pleasures? What am I living for?
You’re not from around here.
Remember where you’re from.