Our Citizenship Is In Heaven

You are the church of Jesus Christ, but more what Paul is saying, you are the commonwealth of heaven, the colony of heaven here. That should frame who we are, our identity. It should frame our circumstances. It should frame how we live our lives. It becomes the very lens, the framework by which we live; by this sojourn, this pilgrimage on our way. We're born, we live, we die, yet we die in the Lord, absent from the body, present with him until that day when we are resurrected. In a new heavens, new earth, and we're no longer a colony, but part, part of that empire, a true imperial empire, a commonwealth, a true commonwealth. Can you imagine the riches of heaven?