"Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone." - Ephesians 2:19-20
If Kurdistan were its own country, it would extend across 193,000 square miles currently within the borders of southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, northern Syria, and northwestern Iran. But even though the Kurdish people have laid claim to this contiguous territory for centuries, they have no recognized nation of their own. After World War I, the Western allies drew up plans to create a "Kurdistan," but those were quashed when the Treaty of Lausanne drew up the borders without establishing “Kurdistan.”
In the 1970s, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein stripped citizenship from thousands of Kurds. Saddam argued that members of the ethnic minority group were Iranians, not Iraqis. The move left thousands of Kurds stateless, with only a small fraction able to obtain Iranian citizenship. Some Kurds are Christians, and even though they are stateless in this world, they have “citizenship in heaven.”
As Christians, we are citizens in God’s family. He paid the price for our citizenship, and there is no cap on how many people He accepts. Today, in prayer, praise Jesus that He has adopted you into His family and given you a new home in Heaven.
"Socrates, being asked what countryman he was, answered, 'I am a citizen of the whole world.' But ask a Christian what countryman he is, and he will answer, 'A citizen of heaven.'" - William Secker
God's Word: "But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ" - Philippians 3:20