May We Never Be Domesticated

“But our citizenship is in heaven” (Philippians 3:20).

We were created for heaven. The earth is not our home. We were created for so much more than the handful of decades we live on planet earth.

God created us for his glory. God created us with a purpose. We were never meant to merely survive our time here on planet earth. We were created to thrive as we join God in Kingdom ministry.

Soren Kierkegaard tells the following story to illustrate how many have lost their way:

A duck was flying with his flock in the springtime northward across Europe. During the flight he came down in a Danish barnyard where there were tame ducks. He enjoyed some of their corn. He stayed, for an hour, then for a day, then for a week, then for a month, and finally, because he relished the good fare and the safety of the barnyard, he stayed all summer.

But one autumn day when the flock of wild ducks were winging their way southward again, they passed over the barnyard, and their mate heard their cries. He was stirred with a strange thrill of joy and delight, and with a great flapping of wings he rose in the air to join his old comrades in their flight. But he found that his good fare had made him so soft and heavy that he could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. So he dropped back again to the barnyard, and said to himself, “Oh well, my life is safe here and the food is good.”

Every spring and autumn when he heard the wild ducks calling, his eyes would gleam for a moment and he would begin to flap his wings. But finally the day came when the wild ducks flew over him and uttered their cry, but he paid not the slightest attention to them.

May we never be domesticated. Remember who you are. Christ died and rose again. Our citizenship is in heaven.