Christians live a double Life

1 Peter2:9
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.”
Christians live a double life. We have accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and King, and owe him all our allegiance. He has another country indeed, another world, planned for us. He is busy building his kingdom right now. Sometimes, here on this earth, while we are with other Christians, or reading and studying his word the Bible, we get a foretaste of that kingdom, and there is no language for us to adequately describe the joy, the love, and the thrill we feel.
In the meantime, we have to live here on this earth, with all its ugliness and cruelty and disease, and death. Many of us have beloved family sharing our lives who don’t know anything about our Christian life, and who cannot comprehend what we are going on about. Of course, there is much to be happy about in this world, too, because God is so good He has given even those who hate him the best things of the world to enjoy. His Creation, little children, love for one another and much, much more.
But in the new world he is building which we are eagerly waiting and working for, the troubles and joys of this world will not be able to compare.
God’s word to us teaches about a place where there will be no more death, or crying, or disease, no more goodbyes or pain or sorrow. We will all have new healthy bodies, our loved ones around us, and best of all, we will see Jesus in all His risen glory.
Why then, must we stay here? Why the long wait? God created the first world in seven days. Why is it taking so long for him to build the new world?

2 Peter3:3
“First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.” 4 They will say “Where is this ’coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation: 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgement and destruction of ungodly men. 8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: with the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance”.