Welcome, readers. Do you know what Thursday was? It was Citizenship Day, for the U.S.A. That got me thinking about a good analogy.But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12)
In this verse, we learn that those who accept Him, God, gives us the right to become children or citizens of God and His home, Heaven. When you are a citizen, you have special privileges that foreigners don't have. When I was living in Texas, my family and I were not citizens of America, so we had a lot less privileges than the America dwellers: we couldn't get several credit cards, we couldn't enter many contests, we were even treated kind of differently in some spots. When we came back to Canada, even though we were living on the opposite side that we came from, I was a citizen. I was born in Canada and had a citizenship. In God's eyes, if you have accepted Him, then you are a citizen of His kingdom.
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. (Philippians 3:20)