There are two parts to it. Look at the first one, identity . This is their sense of identity, who they are. It s their personal self-description. The easiest thing for you and me to forget is that we are pilgrims here on earth.
Nomads are temporary dwellers.
They refuse to sink their roots so deeply in one place that they forget what they re all about. They move from place to place with a greater purpose and destination in mind then their current location. This is not suggesting that we are all suppose to move around and never settle down here on earth. In fact, many of the heroes of faith mentioned in this chapter were not called to a literal journey around the globe like, for example, Abraham was. We forget that even in the midst of our settlements, we are not yet really Home.