The Gift of "Tourista"
A friend of mine recently traveled to Mexico and came back with an unpleasant gift—“tourista”—better known as diarrhea. The sickness was probably acquired by drinking a soft drink with ice. It sounds harmless, but the effect on the body is terrible.
Why do travelers to other countries end up sick from eating and drinking when citizens of that country are not affected by it at all? The natives have become resistant to the harmful bacteria since they ingest it daily, but our immune systems cannot handle the influx of microorganisms.
Since we are citizens of another place--Heaven, there are certain places that we should not go and partake of the “food,” since it can be harmful to us. The food could be seen as the sinful activities of this world which may seem harmless when we first consider participating in them, but afterwards we see clearly that they have had an adverse effect on us.
If we choose to keep going back to the harmful things eventually we will become immune to their effects. The dangerous activities can lead us astray and keep us from longing from our real home.
What earthly things do you need to resist, so that you don’t either get sick from them or become immune to them? What do you most look forward to in regard to your heavenly home?
Philippians 3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
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