LOOKING FOR THAT HEAVENLY CITY

 

      Contrary to popular belief, people are still being called out by God today. He is calling people to set their hearts on something that they cannot see, feel, touch, smell and hear, but yet it is as real to us as though they could do all of those things. It’s not something that the physical senses can discover, but by faith we know that it’s there. By exercising our spiritual senses we can almost see the lights of that Heavenly city and it’s like a magnet drawing us ever closer. I don’t know what you sense, but I know there’s a city out there not made with hands. It’s a place where I will finally find complete peace and rest, and joy beyond measure.

      Look at Abraham. What God had given Abraham did not define his final destination, a family to provide for, a job to complete, no, he gave him a place to go but he was still searching for that final destination. He was still looking for a city somewhere. It wasn’t made on earthly foundations, it was built upon God’s Holy Mountain in the portals of Heaven and it was on a different plane, a different dimension, but it was there and it still is. Along the way Abraham would fight many battles and he would have to provide for his family by earning his way and taking possession of earthly things to meet those needs but they weren’t his focus. They were only a means of getting where he was supposed to be going. He had an inheritance coming and no doubt he had the opportunity to inherit land and wealth from his family back in Ur of the Chaldees. He could have been rich if he hadn’t given it all away. But Abraham gave up the earthly inheritance for a Heavenly inheritance. Have we???

      Paul said in Philippians 3:7-8; “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, Philippians 3:7-8;