Citizens of Heaven 

   “For us, our homeland is in heaven, and from heaven comes the Savior we are waiting for, the Lord Jesus Christ, and he will transfigure these wretched bodies of ours into copies of his glorious body.” (Phil 3: 21) 

   Christianity knows no nationality; we are of every nation and every country of the world.  Imagine how the world might become if all Christians believed and acted on this truth.  If we all stopped squabbling among ourselves and fought instead the evils of this world.

   Far too often we allow the “accident” of where we were born or where we live to override our Christianity.  We want to fit in with the society in which we live.  But societies are very different, not only in various areas of the world, but even within the same country.  Society responds to the wants and desires of the majority of those within it; Christianity is supposed to stand for the truths given to us by our God.

   It's easy to see this disparity in faith in the United States.  Those who live in very liberal areas of the country are likely to have a more liberal interpretation of Christ’s words.  In more conservative areas, the same words are interpreted more conservatively.  But the words of our Savior are not subject to interpretation and change based on our political opinions or those of society, they are the word of God.

   Christians all over the world need to proclaim their citizenship as heaven and work to bring the ways of God into the many lands of in which we live.  Society changes with the whim of the majority, Christianity cannot.  The truths of God are constant for all eternity.

   Jesus didn’t come to save one nation or people, but the entire world.  As He was about to depart this world He commissioned His apostles saying, “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. (Matt 28: 19 – 20).