Dwelling and Sojourning

Main idea. Dwelling in God is recognizing that our permanent home is in him, even as we sojourn here in time.

For the past year or so, I’ve been reading a Psalm nearly every day. Throughout this time, dwelling in God's presence comes up frequently. I’ve noticed that dwelling carries with it a sense of permanence. It carries the idea of being as opposed to the “being here for now” of sojourning.

Indeed, the contrast with sojourning sets up the image of the life of faith. Those who trust Christ are sojourners in the world. This is not our home, but we live here for now. God himself is our dwelling-place. He is our forever home. He completes our intention to dwell in him with the fruit of abiding in his presence (reflection on Psalm 91).

---
Twitter
(C) Laura Springer

Musings of a peripatetic wannabe-sage by Laura Springer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.