Illegal immigration?

A debate is raging in our country over illegal immigration and its effects on us. Protests over the last couple of weeks have raised the level of debate, especially as it relates to illegal workers from the south – whether Mexico or other Central American countries. The illegals say that justice demands that they be allowed access to the freedoms American citizens enjoy. The President and Congress seem stymied by what to do about it all.

Carol and I can testify that immigration is a difficult process in America. Hoops have to be jumped through; a good bit of money has to be paid; but those steps have to be done in order to be recognized as a citizen of the United States.

There is a citizenship far superior to US citizenship. The basis for becoming a citizen of that place cost far more than US citizenship and was far more complicated. Every person in the world begins as an alien to this citizenship – and as the Scripture says, is “without hope and without God in the world.” But Christ Jesus stepped into our hopeless and broke it – by having his own body shattered on the Cross of Calvary. Now, those of us who have accepted His sacrificial work on the Cross have access to the Father by the Spirit. Now we have been granted a new status, not on the basis of our labor, but on the basis of His sacrifice. Now we are considered citizens – citizens of heaven. (Eph. 2:12-20; Phil. 2:19)