Charting one’s life journey to becoming a rightful citizen of a country whose builder and architect is God

(meditations on Heb 11)
Experience required         

·     A walk of Faith

Having Faith (being sure and certain of things hope but not yet seen) that

·       God is

·       To understand God is the Creator of all

Relation with God by Faith

·       God is to be worshipped in spirit with all heart, mind and soul

·       God accepts only true worship

·       God is righteous and hates ungodliness

·       God warns of punishment through things not seen and provide way of escape to those who fear God

The call of God

·       God calls to go to a place he would give later as an inheritance even without knowing where

·       To make home in a foreign country and live in tents

·       To look forward to the CITY with foundations whose architect and builder is God

Walk in Faith

·       Nothing is impossible with God

·       To live in faith till death

·       To see and welcome things hope for in a distance even when not realized in their own lifetime

Walking by Faith on earth

·       To admit being aliens and strangers on earth

·       To show that they are looking for a country of their own

·       To not thinking of the country left behind and not taking the opportunity to return

·       To looking rather for a better country – a heavenly one

God’s relationship with them 

·       God not ashamed to be called their God

·       God prepared a city for them

Their attitude towards God

·       Readiness to offer even the most precious (and graciously receiving it back from God)

·       To worship learning on the top of a staff

Preparing the coming generation

·       To bless the future generation

·       To foresee and act upon the future (even if there would be a gap of many years – e.g. Joseph – 400 years)

Faith in Action

·       To see and act in faith and not to be afraid of the king’s edict

·       To refuse to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter

·       To choose to be mistreated along the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time

·       To see the disgrace of Christ as greater value than the treasures of Egypt because of looking forward to reward

·       Not to fear the king’s anger but to preserve because of seeing the Invisible One

·       To pass through the Red Sea by faith and walk on dry land

·       To march around in faith around the walls of Jericho till they fell

·       To act in faith and not to be killed with those who were disobedient

Power of Faith

·       To conquered kingdoms

·       To administered justice

·       To quench the fury of flames

·       To escape the edges of the sword

·        To turn their weaknesses to strengths

·       To become powerful in battles and rout he enemies

·       To receive back the dead and to see the death raise to life again

Choices by Faith

·       To be tortured and yet refusing to be released as waiting to gain a better resurrection

·       To face jeers and floggings

·       To be chained and put to prisons

·       To be stoned

·       To be sawed into two

·       To be put to death by sword

·       To go about in sheepskins and goatskins

·       To be destitute, persecuted and mistreated

·       To wander in deserts and mountains and in caves and holes in the ground

·       Not to receive as yet what had been promised

In God’s eyes

·       The world not worthy of them

·       God had planned something better – together – to be made perfect

Langkham 17/03/2012