Home Away from Home

Between the glorious and mundane

The radical and the oh, so sane

The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat

It saves and it seasons or soberly weeps.

Between the glory and the degradation

We live in a place that’s in need of salvation

The light of the world cannot be hid away

It labors to illumine and puts glory on display

Chorus

Yes, our citizenship is in heaven on high

And we won’t make it home till the day that we die

But if we’­re dying with Christ we  are never alone

He’ll abide with us here in our home- away from home

So I’ll build my home on Christ and nothing less

I’ll hold this home loosely till I take my rest

And so to this world I’ll not be conformed

I will set my mind on Jesus and be transformed

Bridge

As exiles and strangers we navigate dangers

As we seek for that city that is to come

We happily sojourn ‘til the day we return

To our home in heaven when the journey is done.

Chorus

Our citizenship is in heaven on high

And we won’t make it home till the day that we die

But if we’­re dying with Christ we  are never alone

He’ll abide with us here in our home- away from home.

After a meditation on a John Piper devotion
June 24, 2020

Anthony Foster