Strangers and Sojourners – Looking

Strangers and sojourners are lookers. You, young people, are lookers, along with all God’s people. So scripture describes us. This makes sense. If we are strangers and sojourners, we look for something beyond the here and now. We have a goal, something to which we look forward, something we seek and anticipate. That goal is heaven. The scriptural model of looking is the patriarchs, especially Abraham, who is singled out in Hebrews 11:8–16. We do well to attend to the looking of this hero of...