Devotion: No Lasting City
"For here we have no lasting city..." Heb. 13:14a (ESV)
The city of man, which unsaved mortals are so fond of, is intended to be permanent. Men put their most strenuous efforts into constructing buildings, streets, parks and monuments. They imagine these will last forever, and so employ painstaking architecture and expend vast sums of money to build ever greater edifices of stone, brick, glass and steel.
Yet on September 11, 2001, two towering skyscrapers -- the vaunted gems of man's supposed wisdom and power in the city that perhaps most graphically represents the city of man in our day -- fell to the ground in only minutes. What more compelling evidence could there be of the fact that the city of man -- however lasting it may seem -- in reality is transient, and is indeed passing away?
The Christian, however, looks not for the city of man but the City of God. The child of God knows, for he has graciously been taught, that "here we have no lasting city." The City of God, which is the Christian's true home, will never pass away.
Take heart, Christian. Your city lies not far ahead.
The city of man, which unsaved mortals are so fond of, is intended to be permanent. Men put their most strenuous efforts into constructing buildings, streets, parks and monuments. They imagine these will last forever, and so employ painstaking architecture and expend vast sums of money to build ever greater edifices of stone, brick, glass and steel.
Yet on September 11, 2001, two towering skyscrapers -- the vaunted gems of man's supposed wisdom and power in the city that perhaps most graphically represents the city of man in our day -- fell to the ground in only minutes. What more compelling evidence could there be of the fact that the city of man -- however lasting it may seem -- in reality is transient, and is indeed passing away?
The Christian, however, looks not for the city of man but the City of God. The child of God knows, for he has graciously been taught, that "here we have no lasting city." The City of God, which is the Christian's true home, will never pass away.
Take heart, Christian. Your city lies not far ahead.
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