BY FAITH...

Hebrews 11: 8 – 16
I really don't know where to go with this subject. ODB talks today of monuments to success, buildings in particular, that each record building is surpassed by the next. I suppose that each builder thinking that theirs was the biggest, was soon beat by a bigger and taller building.
But where does faith fit into all this?
Because he was urged and prompted, Abraham listened to God and left his homeland to go to a new country and believed that even though he and his wife Sarah were beyond the age of child bearing, that they would become the parents of a great nation. They never got to see these things come to pass, but they knew that they would because God told them that it would happen, and they believed.
Where do buildings and monuments fit into that? Am I missing the point?
Anyway Abraham was following God and knew that he was a stranger in a strange land and was in search of a better country, the heavenly country where he would have full citizenship.
13 Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world.
14 People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home.
15 If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted.
16 But they were after a far better country than that—heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.
Like I said in the beginning, I don't know what to make of this teaching and am leaving it up to you to read the scripture meditate on it and let it marinate in.
I love you guys
Yours in Christ
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