Citizen of Another Country

I am a Swiss citizen. Most days I never remember that I'm a citizen of another country. Maybe only once a month it comes to my mind, when we receive the Swiss Review in the mail. Other then that I live my life like I'm an American. I do things like Americans. I speak in English, I dress like an American, I walk and talk like one. Even eat American food. Recently I was thinking about how really we ALL are citizens of another country! It's so easy to forget and go on living life like you belong where you are at. It's easy to fall into the pattern of the world, talking and dressing like the world would have us do so. We must remain heavenly minded, remembering that we don't belong here! Let's be proud of the fact that we are citizens of another country! When we talk let people hear that accent and have them wonder where we are from. When we dress, let people ask what makes us so different that we will not dress in the immodest way the world wants us to.
Hebrews 11:13-16 says, "And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of thier own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country--a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called thier God, for he has prepared a city for them."
We belong in a heavenly country. One that is pure, holy, and righteous. Don't be ashamed of that citiznship. ACT like you belong somewhere else. It's so easy to forget that and go on living life like you where made for this earth. I challenge you to not remember this once a month, or twice a year around the holidays, but EVERY DAY, be mindful that the way you speak, dress, and act should reflect your citizenship in God's country!

on His adventure,
~becca~