Let's explore our blessing. Let's open our strange present and play with it a bit. What does it mean?
Alienation is the opposite of being at home. If the Bible is not wrong when it calls us "strangers and pilgrims" (1 Pet 2:11), then that's why we feel alienation: We feel what is. When any organism is at home, there is an ecological fit with its environment, a harmony, a rightness. If the environment does not supply this, that environment is not its home.
A fish has no quarrel with the sea. Yet we have a lover's quarrel with the world...
We have a homing instinct, a "home detector," and it doesn't ring for earth. That's why nearly every society in history except our own instinctively believes in life after death. Like the great mythic wanders, Like Ulysses and Aeneas, we have been trying to get home. Earth just doesn't smell like home. However good a road it is, however good a mote it is, however good a training camp it is, it is not home. Heaven is.
1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.
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