TRAVELERS IN TRANSIT



It’s like we are in a camp in this world. 

In the context of this discussion, let us describe a camp as a place with temporary accommodation structures which is occupied by soldiers, refugees, travelers, hikers or individuals undertaking a special mission, training, or other focused and timed event.

To camp is to lodge temporarily, especially in an inappropriate or uncomfortable place.

Our lifetime on Earth can be likened to that of campers or wayfarers who are in transit.

I recommend you read the book or see the movie titled The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan. 

It’s a 1678 Christian allegory, which is regarded as one of the most significant works of Christian Faith in English literature and infact a progenitor of the narrative aspect of Christian media.

Reading or watching it will provide the Believer with insight into our personal spiritual journey or walk.

It will make you more aware and appreciative of the battles, pitfalls, schemes, trials and temptations that we are being faced with on a daily basis.

It should make a lasting and meaningful impact in your heart and life as a child of God in the midst of a world full of uncertainties and challenges.

There is a certain disposition that every maturing Believer should have in dealing with the different challenges as well as comforts that we experience.

There is a key or fundamental understanding that the sojourning Christian must be equipped with, about the underlying forces—entities and principles—behind whatever we see in this present world.

The same way that there is a level of preparedness, mental posture, attitude, disposition, alertness, curiosity and carriage that every traveler must have while they are in transit or while they are at a stopover prior to reaching their final destination.

Do you get the analogy?

We are not supposed to take certain things too seriously in this world nor are we supposed to see anything—good or bad—as a fixed condition, even though it may last for long or even for a lifetime.

As the ancient text asserts, thiis ife is a vapor—meaning it is fleeting, temporary or transient. 

The Hebrew word is ‘hevel’ or ‘hebel’ meaning vapor, mist, steam, smoke or breath. 

Life is like a whiff of smoke that is puffed out with energy and enthusiasm, then slowly fades away.

Indeed, we’re in transit. Travelers in transit.

Sojourners on a stretch of road that ends in the relative unknown also called The Great Beyond.

Anyways, on this side of Time, we are on a time budget and our life-time schedule is relatively uncertain, or at least not absolutely certain.

This should give us perspective on how to manage our lives and interactions with fellow sojourners.

Like pilgrims on a journey, we are not to be overly attached to things we will certainly leave behind.

We should appreciate and engage them well.

We should do our part in maintaining a healthy relationship with people and with resources. 

This mindset will help us to more deeply appreciate every person, opportunity, situation and resource that we are privileged to encounter or experience.

If you understand this, then you have begun to understand the beauty of the Christian journey. 

You will begin to see and process things differently.

Yes again, we are pilgrims in transit. 

We live, love and work here with all diligence and acknowledgment of the goodness in this life.

Yet we know we have no continuing city here. 

We make imprints of love on the sands of time.

However, we set our sights on “things above”, where Christ the King who is our life is seated.

We believe and affirm this to be the truth.

[This piece is intended for the said ‘Believers’].

Grace and peace to all such who trust in Christ!

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