This World Is Not Our Home

It is easy for us as individuals to get wrapped up in our own lives. I am especially susceptible to this. So for me there is a tremendous value and packing up the "necessities," (this itself is a useful exercise) jumping in the car, and heading for the Feast. I need the reminder that all the things I think are so important, aren't. If we are a Christian then this world, this society, what I call in this blog Babylon, is not your home. Hebrews 11 tell us this about Abraham:

⁸ By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. ⁹ By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 

They never had a permanent home, they lived in tents. This is very similar to what a pilgrimage festival accomplishes. It reminds us that this world is not our home. That we have something to look forward to. Even though, to a degree, we live in the world Abraham looked for, to a degree we all look forward to the future. Hebrews 11 concludes with this:

³⁹ These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, ⁴⁰ since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

Yes God has a plan for us, we have a glorious future, a new body that will allow perfection, what God always had in mind for us when we were created. Observing a pilgrimage festival reminds us of this. This world is not all there is, there is more.