Exodus 2:21-22

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Exodus 2:21-22

And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah. She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land."

Moses understood the reality of life: we are not made for this world. We live here. We grow up, marry, have children, laugh and cry here. There is a part of us with a vested interest in this world, but ultimately we are all Gershom: a stranger here. This is not our "forever home"; those of us that have trusted Christ as our Savior have a heavenly citizenship. So shouldn't that affect our lives? Shouldn't we hold earthly things more loosely, clinging to the Unchanging, Everlasting God? Shouldn't we be a little more focused on what matters for eternity, not so much what I want right at this moment?

Father, give me the grace to hold this world loosely; to live as a sojourner in a foriegn land. Help me to keep one foot in eternity and my focus on You!!

May the Lord richly bless you as you live with a gaze fixed on your forever home!

Dancing in the rain,
Haley "SunShine" Miller
"Exhort one another daily while it is called 'Today'" (Hebrews 3:13)
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