A Devotional for Monday
September 16
God Prepares Them a City
“For he [Abraham] was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God”
Hebrews 11:10
[They desire a] heavenly country, where there is a heavenly Father (Matthew 6: 14-16), a heavenly host (Luke 2: 13), heavenly things (John 3: 12), heavenly visions (Acts 26: 19), heavenly places (Ephesians 1: 3, 20), a heavenly kingdom (2 Timothy 4: 18), and the heavenly Jerusalem (Hebrews 12: 22), for them that are partakers of the heavenly calling (Hebrews 3: 1), and that are the heavenly things themselves (Hebrews 9: 23). This is a country to be desired and therefore no marvel if any, except those that have lost their wits and senses, refuse to choose themselves a habitation here.
Here is the “Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and an innumerable company of angels: here is the general assembly and church of the firstborn, and God the Judge of all, and Jesus, and the spirits of just men made perfect” (Hebrews 12: 22-24). Who would not be here? This is the country that the righteous desire for a habitation: “[B]ut now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city” (Hebrews 11:16).
Mark [this], they desire a country and God [has] prepared for them a city. He goes beyond their desires, beyond their apprehensions, beyond all their hearts conceive to ask. There is none that is weary of this world from a gracious disposition that they have to an heavenly. But God will take notice of them, will own them, and not be ashamed to own them. Yea, such shall not lose their longing. They desire a handful; God gives them a seaful. They desire a country, God prepares for them a city—a city that is an heavenly; a city that has foundation, a city whose builder and maker is God
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