By Pilgrim Nick Smith
Throughout our pilgrimage in the Holy Land, a place soaked in history and littered with the ruins of countless empires which have risen and fallen here, one could only be struck by the transcience of the human structures and institutions and civilsation we take for granted. As we wandered through Caesarea it was impossible to think of the people who many millenia ago would have inhabited this once thriving metropolis which had now been reduced to little more than a pile of rubble and whether they would have considered the fate of their city. The passage in Genesis came to mind "you are dust, and to dust you shall return," as one could see how putting one's hope in Earthly treasures and honours which are by their nature fleeting is ultimately foolish as in the end they amount to little more than ashes and dust. We should thus take up Christ's admonition to "store up for [our]selves treasure in Heaven" with Him, He who is permanent and everlasting and outside the ebb and flow of history.
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