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“Our Citizenship is in Heaven”
“But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” Philippians 3:20. The Christian walk often feels like it’s done on a tightrope between two skyscrapers while the winds of the world try to blow us one way or the other. On the one side, we must not compromise with the culture that blasts us relentlessly to become like it. If we react too much to the wind, we risk leaning too much and stepping off the wire of His Word. This is the Christian who fixates on one issue to the loss of the whole counsel of God. Rather, we must be Christ in the culture by keeping our balance. Paul did so, inviting others to step where he and the faithful walked (v17). Then he warned of others whose feet seem to be on the wire—for now—but who are really unbalanced and will fall to their destruction (v18-19). Because our citizenship is in heaven, the world should not affect us. We must keep our feet moving ever forward on the wire, keeping our balance in the wind, and our eyes fixed ahead to the goal, who is our Savior, who has walked the tightrope before us. Is this difficult to do? Yes, but He will uphold you and transform you when you reach the end. Where truly is your citizenship?