Alien in the land and a thoughful verse from Romans

Lately, it seems like God has been showing me more about being an alien in my own country, state, city, etc. I've been hearing about the oil spill, the economy, school decisions, and other news from the media- and i think, "man, with all this hard stuff going on, i'm glad that this earth is not my final destination. My true home is in heaven with God my Father." In this world, many people have troubles, including myself. What is our escape? Why were we put on this earth if there's so much turmoil and hardships? Didn't God say go and make disciples? The reason why we're on this earth is to serve God and make Him known. (I'm sure there are other reasons as well, those were just the 1st 2 reasons to pop in my head.) Sometimes when I'm worshiping God, I'll think "Ya know, I was made for something better. I was made to worship God and be with Him."

My thoughtful verse comes from Romans 5:20-21
²⁰The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, ²¹so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

When I first read these verses, my first thought was this:
1) Sin increased? uh oh. that doesn't sound good. I don't want sin to increase.

BUT....i had to go on to read the rest of the verse.
Where sin increased, GRACE increased ALL THE MORE. Wow...what an encouraging thought.
When sin increased, grace for us increased.
Also, my other thought about this verse was this:
2) because sin increased, no one can say that they are perfect. If there were only one law- people
could become perfect and do their best to not break that rule. Where sin increased, grace increased. No one is perfect, only God is perfect.

The next few verses in Romans 6 help us with this also. Where sin increased, grace increased.
Just because grace is increasing, doesn't mean we can keep on sinning.

Romans 6:1-4
¹What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? ²By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? ³Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.