Pilgrims Here

Narrator: Chris Genthree
 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 5
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Seventy-five year old Bill Griffing barely escaped with his life when the Big Thompson River flood half covered his home.
After the flood subsided, he was found standing thigh-deep in mud in his home and unable to move.
After old Bill was rescued, he said, “The flood had to come to teach people a lot of things — the realities of life.
“This has proved to me that there is no place on this earth that is solid enough. We are not supposed to be settlers here. Don’t you know how uncertain life is? We’re just supposed to be pilgrims!”
Old Bill doesn’t plan to move back to his home on the Big Thompson. “It came to pass that it is time I can’t be home there,” he said. For the time being he is just living one day at a time.
The Bible tells us of those of old who saw the promises of God by faith “and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.” Heb. 11:1313These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. (Hebrews 11:13). Let us follow their example.
But in order to follow their faith we must have an object outside this world and beyond this life. That object is the Lord Jesus Christ who once died, but rose again and is now at the right hand of God in heaven. This is the day of grace, and He waits to save and bless all who will trust Him as their Saviour.
ML-06/26/1977