About feeling at home in this world I have been thinking quite a bit lately.

THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE FEELING AT HOME IN THIS WORLD.

Who are the people?

Maybe you are one of them?

Do I meet every day people who feel at home on earth? I don’t know and from now on I will ask them, when the opportunity arises.

THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT FEELING AT HOME IN THIS WORLD.

Who are the people?

They admit that they are aliens in this world.

The Collins English Dictionary teaches me that an alien is “a person who is a citizen of a country other than the one in which he or she lives.” An alien is “a person who does not seem to fit in with his or her environment.” Alien means “foreign” and the meaning of foreign is “dealing or concerned with another country.”

They admit that they are strangers on earth.

The Bible calls them “God’s elect.” Please read that in First Peter 1:1.

In First Peter 2:10 Peter urges the “aliens and strangers in the world to abstain from sinful things, which war against the soul.”

In Genesis 23:3,4 Abraham says, “‘I am an alien and a stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so that I can bury my dead.'”

I can say with the anonymous hymn writer who gave us the hymn, “This world is not my home, I’m just a-passing through, …” : “AND I CAN’T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE.” (You find that sentence six times in the hymn, at the end of the three verses and at the end of the chorus.)