In the previous meditation, we saw how  Abraham stood in defence of God’s name. When he refused to take spoils of war from a heathen King, it was so that God’s glory would not be compromised. The text before us drops another hint about the kind of man Abraham was. In his nomadic lifestyle, he made do with tents whenever it was time to settle. From Bible accounts, we know that he was a rich man and could afford buildings of a more permanent nature, even the palace of a king. His choice of tents was accounted for by the verse following our text. “For he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God”. (Hebrews 11:10). In other words, Abraham was mindful of heaven; so he lived like a pilgrim on earth.

The ultimate focus of a disciple is heaven.

In his writing to the Colossians, Paul admonished those who have come to the faith of Christ to make heaven their aim. The focus of a disciple should be where his master dwells. Christ is seated at the right hand of the  father in Heaven, and that should be our focus. Many times we are distracted by the pursuits of life. While these pursuits are legitimate, we must not allow them to take our focus from the ultimate. It was C.S. Lewis who said, “Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’; aim at earth and you will get neither”. That sounds more like the words of Jesus, teaching us to first seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and other things shall be added as well. The ultimate focus of a disciple is heaven.