From the onset of our salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, we’re spiritually repositioned from the kingdom of darkness where Satan rules to the Kingdom of Light where God reigns. Because our eternal citizenship is now in Heaven, we live as foreigners and temporary residents here on earth. While our earthly bodies fade, we worship the Lord and eagerly await Christ’s second coming. When this occurs, He “will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body” (Philippians 3:21 NIV). While waiting for our complete salvation through Christ Jesus, we’re called to draw closer and closer to our Creator—to love Him more, know Him more, and become more Christ-like in thought, behavior, and action. This progressively occurs by means of God’s Holy Spirit living, maturing, and increasing within us. As we abide in Christ and He abides in us, we’ll indeed seek and crave more of Heaven and less of this world. The more our souls, minds, wills, and emotions yield to the transforming work of God’s Spirit, the greater the battles within our soul and flesh decrease. Only then will we advance in sacred change on our spiritual journey toward our eternal, secured Homeland that God has promised us.