"This Is Not Your Resting Place, Because It Is Defiled."

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 glorious 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!" (Micah 2: 10)

 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

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GraceGems has published Philip Bennett Power's insightful two page article on God's providential dealings, 
"The Shadowed Face!"