A Sojourner's Quest

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you in your spiritual walk. Whatever your strategy, we are convinced that within this book you will find tasty nourishment to strengthen you on your journey to Christ. The notion of spiritual pilgrimage is nothing new in Christian spiritual formation. People have been making actual pilgrimages to specific sites and places for thousands of years. During medieval times, Christians commonly journeyed for hundreds of miles in order to visit a place of spiritual significance – the resting place of a Christian martyr or the location of key spiritual importance. For us who know the Lord Jesus and long for the true Promised Land to come, each day we make pilgrimage as we seek the Lord and prayerfully pursue the mark of the upward prize in Christ Jesus (Phil. 3.7-14). As believers in Christ and the spiritual children of Abraham, we gladly admit that we too are pilgrims, strangers and exiles in this present land; we look for the land of promise to come. And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, [18] knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, [19] but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. ~ 1 Peter 1.17-19 Come, Join the Sojourner’s Quest As the people of Israel were supernaturally guided by the Lord each day by the pillar of cloud which became a pillar of fire at night, so we too, the children of Abraham by faith in Christ, travel each day toward the Promised Land to come. As the cloud symbolized the presence of God, so today we are the Temple of God, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, whose loving strength and faithfulness guides us to our true homeland. Let us gladly admit that like Abraham and the people of Israel we too seek a homeland, a city, a destination where, after long last, we will see the risen, exalted Lord Jesus Christ: I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, [14] to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, [15] which he will display at the proper time – he who is the blessed