L29: Exodus

There's something to be said about the call to be a foreigner in the Bible. Throughout Leviticus and Deuteronomy (and elsewhere), God reminds the Israelites to show hospitality to the non-Hebrews they will share space with because "they were once foreigners in Egypt." Further than that, we're called people just on a sojourn here on this Earth, citizens, more truly, of a heavenly Kingdom.

In the words of C.S. Lewis, God does not want us to get too comfortable here, to mistake anything here as anything but temporary.

But there are pieces of eternity all around us, and it matters how we treat them...it feels a bit kitsche to say, but the people around us have souls that will last forever and we collide with them everyday.

So there's always a necessry tension. Life as a child of God is by nature always already liminal...because we're living as eternal beings with heavenly citizenship in a world that is nothing but fleeting.

-Zack

"we're so comfortable now the pioneers have settled in, a perfect blend of progress and pale skin"

-John Reuben