Today's devotional: longing for a homeland
One Biblical concept that I, and I suspect many Americans like me, have trouble relating to is...
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When You're Stuck Where You Don't Want to Be - #6802
If you're stuck where you don't want to be? Well, God's approach is to act as if you'll be there for a long time. Quit wishing you were somewhere else or someone else. Make something of the place where you are. There are people there who need Christ. Don't look past them because you don't like where you are.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/when-youre-stuck-where-you-dont-w...
Exile in the Bible - a Christian perspective
God had longed warned His people in the Old Testament that their repeated disobedience would result in exile from their homeland if they did not repent and change their ways. In this verse, they suffer the fate of exile that God had warned them about.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2024:13-15&version=NIV