"All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country-a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them." Heb 11How unique these people must have seemed to the citizens of the land. Think about what is being said of them, and how it must have been received by those they were living with
They did not receive the things promised - they lived in a way that they held as true something they never saw. They probably spoke of these things to other people who of course didn't see them either - maybe they just thought they were crazy?
They admitted they were aliens and strangers - they reminded themselves and others that they did not belong. They had different values, different goals, different ways of evaluating things, a different economy... They were weird!
AS A RESULT...
Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Oh, that this would be said of me. I desire for God to not be ashamed to be called my God. I desire to be His delight.
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