Philippians 3:20-21 ESV
20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

CITIZENS IN HEAVEN.
Unlike the ‘enemies of the cross’, true believers should mind heavenly things. Why? They’re citizens in heaven. Everyone who receives Christ becomes one of God’s children.[John 1:12] And they are heirs of God in Christ. [Rom 8:16,17] This is ‘the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.’[2 Cor 8:9].

Thus, “God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”[Eph 2:4-7]. Therefore, Christians, while here on earth temporarily, has already an heavenly status. Take for example Filipino tourists visiting a foreign country do remain as Filipinos, don’t they?

Our position as citizens in heaven should determine our posture and practices now. That we should be ready and excited in waiting the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And this waiting isn’t passively sitting down with folded hands. For Jesus has said,” Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.”[Luke 12:43] May when Jesus come, he will find us with our boots on. An occupied life is the prepared life.

What should excite us to wait our Savior? It is because He will ‘transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.’ How would this happen? Paul, therefore, had articulated, saying;
“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”[1 Cor 15:54-57]

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