Only Visiting This Planet

Hebrews 11:13

All these people died still believing what God had promised them. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it. They agreed that they were foreigners and nomads here on earth.

Hebrews 11 is often called, “The Hall of Faith,” because it recounts story after story of people who had faith in what God had promised and called them to do. And the list is impressive. Noah built a huge boat because God asked him to. Abraham left his home and journeyed to a land he did not know in order to follow God’s call and begin a new country. They all risked everything because God called them. They agreed, like Larry Norman sang, “I’m only visiting this planet…”

They all had faith. Faith that this world was not their final destination, faith that God had more for them, whether they saw it be completed or not. Faith gets a lot of ridicule by people who don’t understand it. But we all have faith in something.

James Merritt once said, "Everybody has faith in something. An atheist drinks water out of a faucet, believing it is safe. He drives his car in highway traffic, believing the brakes work. He submits to the surgeon's knife, believing the doctor knows what he is doing.

But there is a big difference between that kind of faith and biblical faith. The value of faith depends on the object we are trusting. You see, the water might actually be poison. The brakes could fail. And the surgeon can make a mistake. But as Christians, we put our faith in the one true God who cannot lie, cannot fail, and never makes a mistake."

It is my faith in Christ that gets me through this life. I believe, and I know, that God is on the end of this life, as well as in my daily life. Heaven awaits, so I’m only visiting this planet!

Today’s Readings: Hebrews 9-11

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