The Lord watches over the foriegner…

What a compassionate God we have! He does indeed sympathize with our weaknesses. It seems that He has a special place in His heart for those who are foriegners, or aliens in a land. We see all throughout the Old Testament, how the Lord had given His people commands that were in consideration of the strangers. We’re so thankful that we have a Father who is watching over us, Who is going before and is also our rear guard. While living in a foriegn country definitely has it’s exciting points, it is still “foriegn”, I like this definition from Webster’s  “ Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertinent; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; — with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one’s nature.” We are still strange, we’re still in a way not connected. Our hearts are connected, but the logistics are stubborn. While Tim’s visa is processing the kids and I kind of have to wait… we’ve waited before; waited while our one year visas processed for nine months only to start the process all over again in 3 months, waited for indeterminable amounts of times while papers are shuffled back and forth, here and there. Now, it seems like the waiting is just part of living; they’ll tell us something we have to do, then because we’re the “strangers” we’ll do it. Hopefully someday, they’ll tell us that they’re ok with us living here and we’ll be able to have “permanent residency”, but I know in my heart that we will always be “strangers”. Because in another place it says that we are pilgrims and sojourners in the land, not because we are not from here, but because we are seeking a better, that is a heavenly country. And because we are seeking that Heavenly country, God is not ashamed to be called our God, and He is preparing that place for us. What a hope we have, what a calling. And how comforting it is to know that until that time when we are recieved into that heavenly country, the Lord is still watching over the foriegner.

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