Be Still And Know

1 Peter 1.1 NLT 'I am writing to God’s chosen people who are living as foreigners in the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.' I wonder where home is for you. The older one gets the more interesting the question becomes because there are so many potential candidates. Perhaps it’s the place where you were born. I left my birthplace when I was 18, but I still look back at it as a place of great importance. But, since then, I have lived in many different places. When I lived in India I remember concluding that my home was wherever I happened to have a bed, table, chair, paper and pen! So long as I had those five items, I was content and could feel at home. Every place that I have lived has become very precious to me, but Peter would want to remind me that I am, at the end of the day, a foreigner. This world is not my true home, because I have a permanent home in heaven. In this letter Peter addresses his readers as foreigners and, throughout the letter, he spells out the implications of