You can drive down one side of a street in Bristol and be in Virginia, but drive on the other side of the street and be in Tennessee. There is a place in the Southwest where four states come together and you can have parts of your body in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah simultaneously. You can take a ski lift up an Alpine mountain, walk along a trail that will take you to a place where Switzerland, Austria and Lichtenstein meet. Being in two places at one time is possible in thousands of physical locations around the world.
For the believer in Jesus Christ, this idea of being in two places at one time has a different reality. Of course we are present in and live in this world. But Jesus has chosen to prepare our eternal home in heaven. We are citizens of heaven. Therefore we do not hold tightly the things of this world, but place our hope and attention on the things of heaven. We live to glorify God and seek to honor Him in all we do.
John 15:19 says, “If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” The world does not understand that believers are in two places at one time, so we have a difficult relationship with the world. But our focus is on loving and serving God.
Reluctant Retiree 