 but it's this idea of passing through that we don't belong to this place and i keep thinking of the words in first peter and even in hebrews where we look at this language having to do with pilgrim being pilgrims they're often referred to as being aliens in a strange land we read in first peter chapter 2 verse 11 beloved i beseech you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul