This is my Father's world
The battle is not done
Jesus who died shall be satisfied
And earth and heaven be one
~M. D. Babcock
As we go about our earthly lives, Heaven usually seems far away, if it enters our minds at all. It is an otherworldly place of angelic delights, an ethereal someday hope, a last resort. But for the believer, it should rather be an immanent reality, our true homeland. The King of Heaven dwells with us, and we live by His laws as His ambassadors in a rebel country. Do we long for the day when the conquered territory of Earth is at last brought under Heaven's rule for good?
But our citizenship is in Heaven.
And we eagerly await a Savior
from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 3:20