SUNDAY January 18, 2026

Not of This World

But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.
Hebrews 9:11

Christ is our High Priest, and good things will come! Consider our new standing as Christians. We have become citizens of two worlds––the temporary, earthly world and the eternal, heavenly world. As with previous followers of Christ, it is the principle of faith that must be applied to our relationship with Christ and our desire for a heavenly city:

These [believers] all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them (Hebrews 11:13-16).

God has created you and me, not for this world, but for heaven. Heaven is where we belong, that is where we are going to spend eternity. Everything God has created on earth is temporal, not eternal. We live in a temporal world that is passing away. We have temporal, earthly bodies that will be changed:

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself (Philippians 3:20-21).

God is Spirit––eternal, immortal, invisible... (1 Timothy 1:17). One day we will see Him––the King of kings and Lord of lords! We shall see the One who was sent into the world to die for the sins of the world.

Christian, meditate much on heaven; it will help you to press on and to forget the difficulty of the journey.
~C.H. Spurgeon~

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