Be Still And Know

1 Peter 1:1 I am writing to God’s chosen people who are living as foreigners in the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia. I wonder where home is for you. Perhaps it’s the place where you were born. I left my birthplace when I was 18, but I still look back at it as a place of great importance. Since then, I have lived in many different places. When I lived in India I remember concluding that my home was wherever I happened to have a bed, table, chair, paper and pen! So long as I had those five items, I was content and could feel at home. Every place that I have lived has become very precious to me, but Peter would want to remind me that I am, at the end of the day, a foreigner. This world is not my true home, because I have a permanent home in heaven. In this letter Peter addresses his readers as foreigners and, throughout the letter, he spells out the implications of living in a place which is only a temporary residence. Being a foreigner is an interesting experience. I came to