Pray the words of this Lazaroo aloud, with renewed resolve:

“…foreigners entered his gates…”
(Obadiah 1:11)

It’s exciting to meet people from other countries, Jesus.

Normally.

Different cultures, languages, skin colors, clothing, foods –

all testifying to the variety of Your creation.

But this was no friendly visit, was it?

This was an invasion.

Suddenly, all those differences weren’t enjoyable –

not when they were being stuffed down their throats.

It would be one thing to travel to a foreign country and discover I hated it.

If that happened, the sights, smells and sounds
would make me incredibly homesick.

I couldn’t wait to get back to my own world!

But if ruthless foreigners swept into my homeland
raping, pillaging, murdering along the way

I’d be trapped
nowhere to run.

That’s not completely unlike the culture war that’s bearing down on me even as we speak, is it?

I am so, so, so, so glad:

This world is not my home.

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Psalms 17:14; Luke 16:8-9; John 8:23; John 9:39; John 12:25-26; John 13:1; John 16:5-11; John 16:33; John 18:36; Romans 12:2; 1 Corinthians 3:19; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31

What is Lazaroo?

Take Me Deeper