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ON A JOURNEY


Text : 1 Peter  2:11  

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

One of the major things you must understand is that,a everyone on this side of eternity is on a journey. We are all journeying as pilgrims and strangers through this earth to a final destination. 
Both the believers and unbelievers are altogether on a journey. While the unbeliever(sinner) is on a journey to eternal damnation, the believer is on a journey to eternal life.

Jesus Christ however has given us the life time opportunity to change the course and path of our journey during our life time. So if any sinner is willing, such can humbly accept the free gift of salvation by simply receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. (Rom. 10:9-10). 

The moment you receive Jesus Christ, your journey into eternal and everlasting life begins.  _And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life._ 1 John 2:25.

Apostle Peter in our text _'beseeched"_ the believers as strangers and pilgrims because they are on a journey (not just to heaven) but to inherit the very life of God just as Christ inherited it while on earth. And that is the reason, our call and destination is conformity to the Image of the Son of God. Rom. 8:28-29

One of the greatest undoing of believers in this generation is Settlement. We settle in material and mundane things as though that is the gain for our calling and election. 1Tim 6:5-8.

Don't get caught up in the Web. This place (earth) is only a passage to your eternal destination. When you go to the market you don't build empire for yourself at the market, you may shop as much as you want but you know you must return home.

You must carry with yourself this consciousness that you have been given the totality of your lifetime to journey onto eternal life. Let your gaze be on the destination and not on the passage. 


Bible Reading : Romans 8: 24-30.


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