The following words are right off of the home page for
the TV show Locked Up Abroad
Locked Up Abroad tells
first hand experiences of unsuspecting travelers who embarked on what they
thought would be a vacation, only to barely make it home ...
I may have
seen 5 minutes of the show one time but I get the premise. Today as I was
reading 1 Peter 2 and was reminded of this show when it said
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Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep
away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls.
Everyone is on this earth only temporarily
and we don’t think of this enough. For the Christian we are locked up abroad,
we cannot yet go home. Some day the
Christian will be released, either when they die or Jesus comes back again, and
not a minute sooner. As the trailer for the National Geographic show says “only
to barley make it home” So it is with the Christian, we do not have the right
within us to be released from this place and to enter Heaven it is only by the
grace of God and the blood of Jesus that we are able to get our pardon and
return home. Now for the ones who don’t trust in Jesus even though they think
this place is Hell on Earth they have no idea that as bad as it is, this is as
close to Heaven they will ever get, compared to Hell this is paradise. Then for
the Christian some think that they should be on vacation here until it’s time
for Heaven but that is far from the truth because Satan, the jailer of earth
makes it difficult for those who love Jesus thus why we all long for home so
much and praise God for His promise to get us there.
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