Walking & Acting with High Dignity
Thursday, July 17, 2025
“What is meant by our being citizens in heaven? It means that we are under heaven’s government.” – C.H. Spurgeon
In January, Deanna and I moved from Midway Estates to Spanish Lakes, a distance of about three miles, for health reasons. During our three years as full-time stationary RVers, I had developed a serious case of vertigo and we felt that a move to a concrete block house would help alleviate my condition… and praise God, it has!
Although our move was a short one, it crossed municipal and county lines from Vero Beach in Indian River County to Fort Pierce in St. Lucie County. And so, I am now a resident of the aforementioned jurisdictions in the State of Florida in the United States of America.
However, as Charles Spurgeon stated in today’s quote, my true and eternal citizenship is in heaven. That “relocation” took place when I was a teenager, and I repented of my sins and placed my faith and trust in Jesus Christ as my personal Savior and Lord.
Someday, in the not-to-distant future, that spiritual relocation will become a physical one (see 2 Corinthians 5:8). But until then, I must act the part of a heavenly citizen because that is who and what I am.
As Charles Spurgeon concluded 150 years ago, “If, then, we are citizens of heaven, let our walk and actions be consistent with our high dignity.”
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our lowly condition into conformity with His glorious body, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.” Philippians 3:20-21 (NASB)
- Rev. Dale M. Glading, President
