Daily Sacrifice, September 13 (4:26)
“Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all” — Galatians 4:26.
THE heavenly Jerusalem is our mother—that is, our mother city. We are the children of grace and we belong by new creation to heaven. Our citizenship is there (Phil. 3:20; note, for conversation read citizenship, the true rendering), and we are called to behave ourselves now as those who belong to that new and glorious scene. When we walk as men of this world, and forget our new citizenship, we dishonor the One who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light.
—Charles Wesley.