Pray the words of this Lazaroo aloud, in paradigm-shattering wonder:

“Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive to Babylon (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town…”
(Ezra 2:1)

Those people had to be ecstatic, Jesus.

They were going home!

But after their initial excitement, they may have struggled with second thoughts.

This foreign land of Babylon was all most of them had ever known.
Their true home – Israel – was distant, unfamiliar, unknown.

I can identify.

The moment I put my trust in You

Heaven became my true home.

But this foreign land of harsh captivity called “earth”

is all I have ever known.

Help me, Jesus!

Teach me how to live out of a suitcase while I’m here

and how to send everything I truly value on ahead.

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Matthew 6:19-21; Matthew 13:44-46; Matthew 19:16-30; Luke 12:32-34; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; 1 Timothy 6:17-19; Hebrews 11:24-26; 2 Peter 3:10-14

What is Lazaroo?

Take Me Deeper

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.