A  PILGRIM  PASSING  THROUGH

I have a passport to a country, where all the people there are blessed.
It’s a Kingdom that’s eternal, where the weary find their rest.

I’m pressing through and moving on, to where the landscape never fades.
I am searching for a City, which has foundations that are laid.

I’m like a soldier who’s in training, and when my orders come along,
When I hear the trumpet blowing, my camp is moving on.

The way has been a narrow path; the lamp has helped me see.
There are many of my brethren who have gone ahead of me.

His Word gives me direction; it is the map that guides my way.
It helps to keep me on my course, if I should go astray.

 I am a stranger in a foreign land; many tests have come my way.
In this environment, my proving ground, I am learning to obey.

The journey can be difficult in the places where I walk.
But even in the wilderness, I’ve found there’s water in the Rock.

Manna falls from heaven, and it fills my hungry heart.
And there is corn upon the mountain top, a handful, set apart.

I am gathering eternal things, from the places where I roam.
This dwelling isn’t permanent; it’s just my temporary home.

 While the outer man is perishing, and the world is growing dim,
I am a traveler with a compass, that continually points to Him.

Although I am encumbered, within this earthly tent,
 Wherever He would lead and guide, I am His witness, sent.

The Mount of Zion calls to me, I have known it from the start.
Watching for that Blessed Hope, I am ready to depart.

I lift my head up heavenward, toward a City in the skies.
Forgetting that which lies behind, I reach to win the prize.

I am just a pilgrim passing through, just visiting here awhile.
For that which lies ahead of me, I will walk the extra mile.


Terri Hill
“Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no”; Exodus 16:4

“There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth”; Psalm 72:16

“…this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus”; Philippians 3:13-14

“For he (Abraham) looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God…These 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 11:10;13

“And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain”; Matthew 5:41