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THE JOURNEY 2

Text : 1 Peter 2:11. 

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

My family and I have been on missionary journey for some years now. We have to move from place to place. Whenever we get to a new place, we try as much as possible to buy only the needful, knowing well that we have to leave everything behind probably after a few years and move on again.

We constantly remind ourselves how we need to travel light, because we are conscious of the fact that we are on a journey. In the same manner, believers are meant to travel light on this side of eternity in order not to be encumbered on their journey. 

One terrible thing the devil has done to believers is to make them settle down here (on earth) as though this is our final destination. 

No one goes to the market to build an edifice where he and his family will be living. No! People go to markets to  transact, buy or sell and they go back home. *This world is a market. You are here to transact, and you are expected to return home with your saved soul.* 

 *The currency you transact with in this world is your time, the moment your time is up, you are done here, next is to give account of what you have done  with your currency.* 

This is why Matthew  16:26 says _For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?_ 

By now, you should know that everything in this world, regardless of how glorious or dainty it looks, is not worth the value of your soul. Your soul is worth much more than the whole world. Hence, you cannot make any profit even if you decide to trade your soul for this world.

Jesus came to this world to awaken your dead spirit back to life. (Ephesians 2:1). The import of this is that, your Spirit man is quickened so you can use the rest of your life to work out the salvation of your soul through and with the help of the Holy Spirit. (1 Peter 1:9, Philippians 2:12-13).

Dear pilgrim, do not lose focus on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Let your gaze always be on Him, and you will never fall short of His expectation.

*Bible Reading:*  

1 Peter1:1-11.

PRAYER FOCUS

1.) Father God, please help me to follow your leadings in this journey of life in Jesus name.

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