Thanks be to God for things that really matter. To me what really matters is my home. Where is my real home? Why should I worry when there are dangers? In 2002 the US was imminently in danger of a war with Iraq. So is my home in danger? Maybe my earthly home. Not my real home. God gives me a home in heaven, not a mystical kingdom where there are Dances of Sugar Plum Fairies and from which I must wake up to once again face troubles on earth. No, God is wonderful in that He has made a place for me in heaven. My heritage and my home are here in Jerusalem. (Galatians 4:26). But the Jerusalem that my heritage and home are set is spiritual, it is actual but it is not here on earth, and God loves me enough to provide for me designs it. Because I am in His church, I alsoe have a counterpart home in the spiritual Jerusalem. Hebrews 4 talks about both the spiritual rest I must enter into as a Christian and at the same time how I must walk in order to be a citizen. "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, "As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For He spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise. And God did rest the seventh day from all His works. And in this place again. If they shall enter in my rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief. Again, He limiteth a certain day, saying in David,'Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that has entered into His rest, he has also ceased from his own works, as God did from His. Let us labour to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4:1-6)