Homesick

I feel like battles have been lost this week but I know the war will be won by my Savior, Jesus Christ! I find myself going back to this song by MercyMe and just feeling homesick today. I know the world will continue to get worse as time goes on... I just continue to feel more and more like a stranger in a strange place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvhrPMJe8LE

John 17:14-19

I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.