WORLD:
CONTENTMENT WITH; PILGRIMS; EARTHLY THINGS

You are a Christian. That you admit. You go to church nearly every Sunday. “Just ask the minister; he will confirm it.”

You have been working and earning, getting and spending, and now you are enjoying the creature comforts known to modern human beings in this land.

You bristle a little and ask, “Is there anything wrong with being comfortable?”

Let me answer in this way: If you are a Christian and you are comfortable “at home” in Chicago or Toronto, in Iowa or Alberta—or any other address on planet earth—the signs are evident that you are in spiritual trouble.

The spiritual equation reads like this: The greater your contentment with your daily circumstances in this world, the greater your defection from the ranks of God’s pilgrims en route to a city whose architect and builder is God Himself!…

One of the most telling indictments against many of us who comprise our Christian churches today is the almost complete acceptance of the contemporary scene as our permanent home. We say that we are followers of Christ, but we have already settled down and we are comfortably at home. We are satisfied to be natives and citizens of this world’s society—we are no longer “aliens and strangers.”

Luke 12:19–21; Philippians 3:18–21; Hebrews 11:10–16

Jesus, Author of our Faith, 53, 54.