Read Psalm 120.

We cannot be at home in Meshech and love God at the same time.  The pilgrimage to God begins with a holy discontent towards Meshech.

But many people live as if they think it possible to be comfortable in the world, in Meshech, and committed to God at the same time.

Can we agree that the Bible says that loving Meshech while you love God is not an option?

Mt. 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

James 4:4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Remember back in Psalm 73 the conclusion that the writer came to: earth has nothing I desire besides you (73:25-28).  And why this discontent?  Because Meshech and God are at odds.  This is not the world God created and pronounced good.  It is God's good world taken over in rebellion, taken over by its sinful selfish citizens.

This is the whole point of pilgrimage.  A pilgrim is one who realizes he is on a journey.  Any town he enters along the way cannot be his end because it is only along the way.  He must live as a stranger or alien (1 Peter 1:17; 2:11).

You may not like this but you cannot deny the truth of the simple fact that you cannot proceed to any destination unless you turn your back on your current location.

Listen to John Bunyon, the author of Pilgrim's Progress:

Remember, if the grace of God has taken hold of your soul, you belong to another world now.  You are actually a subject of another, more noble kingdom, the kingdom of God -- the kingdom of the gospel, of grace, of faith, righteousness, and the kingdom of the world to come.  You should work to live in this kingdom, rather than dragging the heavenly things God has given you through this world's dirt.  Instead, beat down your body's selfish urges, destroy your self-centered point of view, boost your mind up to the things that are above, and put into practice before everyone the blessed word of life.

We cannot love and hate Meshech at the same time any more than we can set out on a journey and stay home at the same time.