Worthy Brief - 11/24/2025
Friend, citizens of heaven: living from a higher kingdom!
Philippians 3:20-21 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
When you came to Yeshua (Jesus), everything about your identity shifted -- even your citizenship. You may still walk upon earthly soil, but heaven has become your true homeland. Paul reveals this profound reality when he writes, “Our citizenship is in heaven, from which we eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Yeshua Messiah” (Philippians 3:20). This is not poetic language; it is a legal and spiritual identity. The limitations, systems, or identity markers of this world no longer define you. You belong to another Kingdom -- a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, governed by a King who cannot be dethroned, and marked by a glory that cannot fade.
Heaven is not simply your future destination; it is your present identity in Messiah. You were born from above, sealed by heaven, filled with heaven’s Spirit, and assigned heaven’s purpose. You carry the DNA of the Kingdom. You operate under its authority. This means you live differently because you see differently. While earth reacts, heaven rules. While earth fears, heaven trusts. While earth clings, heaven releases. While earth fights for position, heaven walks in purpose. While earth seeks recognition, heaven rests in identity.
When the reality of your heavenly citizenship truly takes hold, everything begins to shift. You stop striving for human approval and begin walking in divine assignment. You stop being shaped by culture and instead become one who shapes culture. You stop interpreting your life through the pressure of earthly circumstances and start seeing from the perspective of heaven. As Paul exhorts, "Set your minds on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Messiah in God" (Colossians 3:2–3). To live as a citizen of heaven means your viewpoint rises to where your spirit already sits -- with Him in heavenly places. You no longer view life from the valley but from the throne room. You no longer interpret identity through adversity but interpret adversity through identity.
As citizens of heaven, we are also ambassadors of heaven on earth -- representatives of divine justice, peace, authority, and reconciliation. Heaven has assigned you to reveal its values, express its culture, carry its power, and demonstrate its heart. This world does not shape you; you are sent into it with the culture of another Kingdom. And as a citizen of heaven, you live under heaven’s protection. Earthly kingdoms may rise and fall, but your citizenship is eternal. Earthly identities may shift and change, but your heavenly identity is immovable. Earthly nations may be shaken, but the Kingdom you belong to stands forever.
This world is not your home; it is your assignment. Your loyalty is to your King. Your identity flows from above, not below. Your destiny is shaped by eternity, not time.
Friend, lift your eyes and live from where you truly belong. Once you realize that you are a spiritual being having an earthly experience — not an earthly being trying to reach heaven — everything changes. You begin to live as a heavenly citizen with a divine purpose for this brief and temporal world. Let heaven define your priorities, decisions, values, and vision. Do not let the noise of this world drown out the voice of your King. Walk with the dignity of one who belongs to a royal Kingdom; speak with the authority of heaven’s ambassador; live with the purity of one set apart; and move with the confidence of one protected by His reign. You are not simply journeying toward heaven — you already belong to it. So live as a citizen of the Kingdom that cannot be shaken, for the King Himself lives within you.
Your family in the Lord with much agape love,
George & Baht Rivka (Arad, Israel)
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