{"id":1799,"date":"2021-08-12T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T17:01:29","slug":"livinginexile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/livinginexile\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Apostle Peter writes,<\/p>

\u201cSince you call on a Father who judges each person\u2019s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here<\/u> in reverent fear\u201d (1 Peter 1:17).<\/p>

Many of us here in the United States feel as though we woke up one day in a foreign country with the seemingly overnight transformation of our nation.<\/p>

There is undoubtedly much to pray for in that regard societally; however, amidst the cultural chaos, there is a spiritual truth being reinforced.<\/strong><\/p>

Our temporary physical surroundings are serving to remind us of an eternal spiritual reality: at salvation we become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven (Phil. 3:20), longing for our heavenly home (2 Cor. 5:2) and often, like Lot, distressed by the depraved conduct around us (2 Pet. 2:7).<\/p>

Spurgeon\u2019s comments are helpful in our efforts to live righteously as salt and light in the world (Luke 14:34-35; Matt. 5:14-16):<\/p>

\u201cYou are only here for a while, you are sojourners, foreigners, pilgrims passing through a country where you have no abiding place; be therefore careful and even fearful lest you should become like the people among whom you dwell, have a holy dread of the contaminations of sin: \u2018Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:\u2019 Not in unbelieving fear, but in that holy carefulness which watches against sin of every kind lest in any way you should spoil your holy work for God.\u201d<\/p>

Carry on amidst the chaos\u2026in holy carefulness, prayerful dependence, and heavenly expectancy!<\/p>

PS: If you\u2019re looking for further encouragement in your journey as a pilgrim, I highly recommend The New Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/a>, which features the late Warren Wiersbe\u2019s study notes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Apostle Peter writes, \u201cSince you call on a Father who judges each person\u2019s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear\u201d (1 Peter 1:17). Many of us here in the United States feel as though we woke up one day in a foreign country with the seemingly overnight transformation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-living"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Mailchimp-exile-600x300.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Mailchimp-exile-600x300.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}