Not our home!
(David Harsha, Immanuel’s Land”)
“For this world is not our home; we are
looking forward to our city in heaven,
which is yet to come.” Hebrews 13:14
We are strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
This present world is not our home.
We are coming up from the wilderness with
our faces Zionward; we are traveling to the
celestial city!
Our path is rough; but the Savior sustains us.
Our pilgrimage lies through a wilderness, but
faith cheers us with a view of the glorious rest
of the redeemed in our Father’s house; in
mansions of blessedness.
Let this consideration animate us amid the
conflicts of life. In a little while we shall obtain
a joyous entrance into the rest above. The
storms of life’s ocean will soon carry us into
the haven of peace, where there is no trouble.
The language of inspiration is, “Get up, go away!
For this is not your resting place, because it is
defiled, it is ruined, beyond all remedy.”
Your Savior, pilgrim Christian, has prepared
for you a nobler rest than this polluted world.
In his Father’s house are many spacious mansions,
where your happy spirit, after tasting the bitter
cup of life’s sorrow, shall rest in eternal blessedness!
“For this world is not our home; we are
looking forward to our city in heaven,
which is yet to come.” Hebrews 13:14
“Only one life to live and soon is past
Only what’s done for Christ will last!”
Hoping to make the time I have left count for the glory of God.
Not our home! (David Harsha, Immanuel’s Land”)