Our Citizenship Is In Heaven

Our Citizenship Is In Heaven

Philippians 3:20-21

For our citizenship is in heaven,  from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior,  the Lord Jesus Christ;  who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory,  by the exertion of the power that He has  even to subject all things to Himself.

We have very good reason to strive with our utmost to live here on earth as a child of the King should live.     As a bona fide child of God Almighty,  we need to remember that our stay here on earth is very short in comparison to all eternity.

We might not always feel like a child of God when we are facing all sorts of temptations and trials.     But, Galatians 4:4-6 assures us that that is exactly what we are by faith.     It says,

But when the fulness of the time came,  God sent forth His Son,  born of a woman,  born under the Law,  in order that He might redeem those who were under the Law,  that we might receive the adoption as sons.     And because you are sons,  God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son  into our hearts, crying, “Abba!    Father!”

It is because the LORD God has adopted us and set claim on us as His children,  that we have automatically become citizens of heaven right now.     Heaven is our real home.     Whatever sort of dwelling we have here on earth is only a temporary means of shelter.     It is totally worthless in comparison to our home in heaven.

As children of God, we wait eagerly for Jesus to come, according to His promise,  and transform these humble bodies of ours into “conformity with the body of His glory”.     There is no human tongue that can describe exactly what that will be.     Whatever we will be like when God takes us up to heaven, it will all be performed by the power of Jesus Christ.     It will be awesome.

That is why it is so vital for us to remain in the true faith through all our struggles here on earth.     There is nothing on earth that is worth giving up our heavenly citizenship for.

As we hold on to God’s promises by faith, we say,  “Hallelujah!     Abba!     Father!    Thank You for making me Your dear child.     Help me to truly live as a child of the King.”

Love,  

Margaret

A devotional to glorify the LORD of lords and King of kings…

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First Day Back @ School

which I think of as a necessary evil (but I keep that to myself obviously!).

This is the first time that the 7 & 5 year old have not appeared fully-clad in uniform in the kitchen at some ungodly hour, all keen to get their groove on in the classroom.

Neither woke in eager anticipation, I had to wake them up and they were both reluctant starters. The eldest cried a bit and the youngest’s FIRST tooth ever FELL out. She’s only just 5, surely far too early for all that? Facing facts, she clearly has two new “adult” teeth growing through at the bottom pushing the baby ones out from behind. It’s brutal stuff for a parent I can tell you, taking a double row of teeth (think shark) yet strangely gapped-wonder in on the first day.

Now, I’d better end there otherwise I am going to forget to do the tooth-fairy thing and my track record on that is pretty dismal…

I should probably make an appointment at the dentist too. My least favourite place, after school.

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There now follows a public information film...

As a kid growing up in the 70s, public information films were regularly on TV warning of the dangers of busy roads, boiling water, nuclear attack and…drowning.  One of the classics was ‘Charley says’.  A young kid with his cat narrowly avoid death and injury in all kinds of ways.  

There haven’t been any such ‘films’ for years, which is a pity because as well as their comic value nowadays, the films did actually warn people of the dangers all around them, without ‘nannying’. 

Here, is a classic ‘Charley’.  Next week’s film will feature Joe and Petunia…

Thanks to Sue Taylor for lending me the DVD…

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Obama's "blame the parents" theme

Parents are over-reacting to the planned presidential speech to school children scheduled for September 8, announced by conservative radio on last Tuesday (which forced the White House to announce “officially” the next day).  Thus says the White House spokesman.  But actions speak louder than words.

And their “body language” says it all. Look at White House spokesman Gibbs’s response:”I think we’ve reached a little bit of the silly season when the president of the United States can’t tell kids in school to study hard and stay in school. I think both political parties agree that the dropout rate is something that threatens our long-term economic success.”

Doesn’t it sound familiar? Blame the citizen. Protests at Town Halls? Those things are called “mobs.” That parents would distrust this light-shining-from-somewhere-and-you’ll-hear-a-voice-saying-I-gotta-be-me president is “silly.”

Is it as “silly” as flag@whitehouse.gov? As silly as Van Jones schtick of Dubya on crack? As silly as candidate Obama’s fake presidential seal? How about as silly as the “Obama girl”? Or perhaps as fishy as billions of dollars disappearing down the giant maw of the IRS? That fishy, maybe?

Nah! Nothing fishy about this president!

The speech may read as boring and pedantic, now that the White House is forced to pre-release a copy.  That may have shifted their strategy into a deliberate effort to portray the conservative citizens as nervous Nellies. But if Gibbs is so concerned about our economic success, why are we wasting the school day on Pollyanna-ish drivel, why doesn’t he instead take away Obama’s credit cards — like a good parent.

I trust nothing about Obama anymore. This is the slickest, smoothest operator to come down the pike. I’ll give him plenty credit for successful deviousness of a scale unprecedented in modern history. He is the anti-Reagan — the most lying, two-faced, used car salesmanish schyster ever.

Read that prepared speech carefully, because I’m betting that the temptation to hubris is huge — they will try to put something in there — something to rankle conservatives, who are after all the ONLY people really even paying attention, and it will be clothed in innocuous seeming terms — but scratch a bit deeper, look at the metaphors, take it down the road one or two logical steps and it’ll have its creepy edge.

Fortunately, that kind of deception is over the heads of children.

Obama IS an object lesson for students.  The lesson: to watch out who you’re hangin’ out with 

– Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, Ezekiel Emanuel, John Holdren, Rahm Emanuel, Kevin Jennings, James Meeks , Tony Rezko and Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour.  Obama has so many skeletons, he’s gonna need a bigger closet.  How did this guy get elected again?  I forget ….

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