We'll be digging in deeper to the passage in John where Jesus effectively pulls us up by the roots from our place in "the world", all the while instilling in us the hope of a home that we haven't properly set foot in yet.
John 17:13-18
I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one. They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world. Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth. Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.
A migrant-kind-of-faith reminds that home is no longer where we're from, nor is it where we find ourselves now. The home we belong to we haven't yet fully encountered. We are mid-journey. Travellers.
Consider this quote from author James K.A. Smith: 'The immigrant is migrating toward a home she’s never been to before. She will arrive in a strange land and, in ways that surprise her, come to say, “I’m at home here,” not least because someone is there to greet her and say, “Welcome home.” The goal isn’t returning home but being welcomed home in a place you weren’t born, arriving in a strange land and being told, “You belong here.” '
