An email I received some time ago started with those words and I was awake straight away. The post came from the Headquarters of our Missionary Society in Germany near Frankfurt.

I am glad that the letter writer reminded us again that we are pilgrims in this world. It is so easy to forget that. The Book “Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan came to my mind straight away. The following I found out only just now about the book “Pilgrim’s Progress”: “No less than 100 000 copies were printed in the ten years before his death,- that is, between 1678 and 1688.” “With the exception of the Greatest book of all, the Bible, no book has ever had so many copies printed.” ” The Pilgrim’s Progress has also been translated into over 100 languages.” DID YOU KNOW ALL THAT?

Especially in the KJV of the Bible we find the word pilgrimage and pilgrims. Please click on the following addresses and read: Genesis 47:9; Exodus 6:4; Psalm 119:54; First Peter 2:11 and Hebrews 11:13.

Are we also confessing, that we are STRANGERS on the earth? Are we also confessing, that we are PILGRIMS on the earth? The NIV translation calls us aliens and strangers! Are you admitting, that you are an ALIEN on earth?

Are we longing to go home, to be with the Lord? Are we rejoicing when the doctor is telling us, that our time here is up soon?——I DON’T THINK SO!?

wd