Pilgrims and strangers!

(Mary Winslow, "Life in Jesus")  LISTEN to Audio!  Download Audio

We are hastening fast through time!

Time is short—and eternity, with all its solemn realities, is before us.

What is our life?  How uncertain!

And yet is it not awfully true that poor wretched man rushes heedlessly on, thoughtless of what awaits him in an endless eternity? We are traveling fast through this wilderness world, and soon shall pass away.

Let us, then, feel more like pilgrims and strangers here. Let us not seek our rest where our precious Jesus had no place to lay His head.

Let us rejoice more in the prospect of that glorious inheritance prepared for us above, where He is, who has loved us unto the death.

Oh, for ten thousand worlds would I not have my portion here in this wilderness!

"They admitted that they were pilgrims and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own!" Hebrews 11:13-14

"Dear friends, I urge you, as pilgrims and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul!" 1 Peter 2:11