A journey, not a destination

This Christian life is a journey...we sojourn together....the Psalmist says, a pilgrimage.

NOUN: 1. A journey to a sacred place or shrine. 2. A long journey or search, especially one of exalted purpose or moral significance.

INTRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: pil·grim·aged, pil·grim·ag·ing, pil·grim·ag·es To go on a pilgrimage.

The Hebrew Translation of Pilgrimage is: sojourning place, dwelling-place, sojourning lifetime


Psalm 84
1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty!
2 My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD ; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
3 Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young- a place near your altar, O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
7 They go from *strength to strength*, till each appears before God in Zion.
8 Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty; listen to me, O God of Jacob.
9 Look upon our shield, O God; look with favor on your anointed one.
10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
12 O LORD Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

This also stuck out today....they go from strength to strength The hebrew for that word and who knew there where over 20 definitions for the word Strength. T

his particular word is used in this way: Definition strength, might, efficiency, wealth, army, ability, force So how does that look?

They go from *might to might*,
till each appears before God in Zion.
They go from *efficiency to efficiency*,
till each appears before God in Zion.
They go from *wealth to wealth*,
till each appears before God in Zion.
They go from *army to army*,
till each appears before God in Zion.
They go from *ability to ability*,
till each appears before God in Zion.
They go from *force to force*,
till each appears before God in Zion.

II Corinthians 3:18 says we go from Glory to Glory.