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Longing for Zion in a foreign Land


 What is the longing of your heart? Where do you desire to be after the life of this world? I know these questions ring in your mind too. As you are working very hard serving God you have some hope just like Apostle Paul said that the hope of his life is to receive an uninterruptible crown that is not given by men but by the Lord Jesus Christ (1Co 9:25  And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. ).

I believe we all hope for the crown but just as Paul we must serve labor on this earth serving God and preaching the good tidings which is the gospel or the Goodnews from the Lord Jesus Christ. That hope and longing is godly but it matters the land where you are.

The place we long to be with the Lord after this world is Zion the city of the Lord that is full of righteousness of God but we live in a foreign land that is compared to Babylon the rejected land that is full of immorality and wickedness, disobedience, murder. 

Serving God in this wicked world requires us that we become obedient to God and practise righteousness to be able to receive the crown of victory. We cannot experience the move and power of God that we desire to experience if we will become like a foreign land. 

We live in this world but of this world, (Joh 17:16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ), So do not allow the world to defile you. Let us avoid the things that defile us as we serve the Lord. Let me have a look at the book of Psalm 137.

 (Psa 137:1)  By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

(Psa 137:2)  We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

(Psa 137:3)  For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

(Psa 137:4)  How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?

(Psa 137:5)  If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

(Psa 137:6)  If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

(Psa 137:7)  Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

(Psa 137:8)  O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

(Psa 137:9)  Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

David in the above Psalm weeps about Zion, the righteousness that we ought to attain to needs a lot of weeping when we see the wickedness and captivity that takes place in our land. Let us work out anything in our life that could make us foreign in serving God.

Prayer: Oh Lord in Jesus name help not to be a foreigner in serving you and take away from me any captivity of sin that I may serve you as my heart longs for Zion. Amen

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