At times I feel like an
ONLOOKER~
Non-participant
Spectator
Bystander.
As I am part of something,
but not really
because I am not really part of
where I am placed.
Being an ONLOOKER
makes me feel lonely.
It makes me feel unimportant.
It makes me feel unconnected.
BUT GOD then reminds me that
aren't we all
ONLOOKERS~
“Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims,
abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul” (I Peter 2:11).
I realize that I am an
ONLOOKER,
a
SOJOURNER,
because
this is not my home~
"BUT [we are different, because] our citizenship is in heaven.
And from there we eagerly await [the coming of] the SAVIOR, the LORD JESUS CHRIST; who, by exerting that power which enables HIM even to subject everything to HIMSELF,
will [not only] transform [but completely refashion]
our earthly bodies so that they will be like
HIS glorious resurrected body"*
Even though I know I am an
ONLOOKER,
it doesn't make it easier to live as one,
BUT GOD has equipped me and all
the
ONLOOKERS
with all we need to journey together through
LIFE,
as Paul has instructed us~
"Not that I have already obtained it [this goal of being CHRISTLIKE] or have already been made perfect, but I actively press on so that I may take hold of that [perfection]
for which CHRIST JESUS took hold of me and made me HIS own.
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have made it my own yet;
but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal to
win the [heavenly] prize of the upward call of GOD in CHRIST JESUS.
All of us who are mature [pursuing spiritual perfection] should have this attitude.
And if in any respect you have a different attitude,
that too GOD will make clear to you.
Only let us stay true to what we have already attained" *((Philippians 3:12-15; 20-21 AMP)
So being an
ONLOOKER isn't so bad
when you know where your real home is,
and that we are just passing through
because
this world is not
"WHERE I BELONG"