Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers: Long for their pilgrimage to end

I said, "I wish I had wings like a dove! Then I could fly away and be at rest.

We know that when the tent which houses us here on earth is torn down, we have a permanent building from God, a building not made by human hands, to house us in heaven.

For in this tent, our earthly body, we groan with desire to have around us the home from heaven that will be ours.

With this around us we will not be found naked.

Yes, while we are in this body, we groan with the sense of being oppressed: it is not so much that we want to take something off, but rather to put something on over it; so that what must die may be swallowed up by the Life.

Moreover, it is God who has prepared us for this very thing, and as a pledge he has given us his Spirit.

So we are always confident — we know that so long as we are at home in the body, we are away from our home with the Lord;

for we live by trust, not by what we see.

We are confident, then, and would much prefer to leave our home in the body and come to our home with the Lord.