Better

"He was looking forward to the city whose designer and builder is God," Hebrews 11:10.

Who was? Our father Abraham. Even as he and Sarah camped out in the promised land, they looked for an even better country. A heavenly homeland. A city built by none other than God himself. They recognized that on this earth they were strangers, exiles. The new covenant established by God in Christ concerns promises, spiritual, heavenly, eternal realities. They do not consist of earthly nations and geographies and governments and structures designed and built by the sweat of man. So, we set our eyes on things above not on things of this earth. New testament.

We visit with a brother or sister today fellow wanderers looking forward to God's home. And together we say to God: yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever!