Living in Tents, Looking for a City with Foundations
Click here to listen to this sermon. “By faith [Abraham] went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God” (Hebrews 11:15-16). Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ! I enjoy camping, but I prefer staying in a cabin or lodge. Two or three days in a tent… that’s about enough “roughing it” for me before my sense of adventure is satisfied. The threshold for my wife is much lower. But Abraham lived in a tent for 100 years, from the age of 75 when God called him out of Ur of the Chaldeans to the day he died at the age of 175 in the land of Canaan. Though God promised Abraham and his descendants an inheritance that would stretch from the Nile River to the Euphrates, Abraham lived as a pilgrim and stranger in Canaan. He died with the only plot of ground in his name being the cave of ...