As men of God throughout the ages have acknowledged, we are all pilgrims, strangers, wanderers in a strange land. We are all seeking for a promised land, a place of peace and rest, where righteousness abounds. This world is just a temporary abode ... we seek for a better place and an everlasting inheritance. We yearn for our heavenly home.
This is the sentiment expressed in the hymn "I'm a Pilgrim, I'm a Stranger," which acknowledges that we are "apt to go astray" and that this life is full of "deathly dangers," but ends with the prayerful request, "guide me Father, safely to the promised land."
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