What if Heaven
Wasn’t just a place we arrive, but a place that we are
In my drive yesterday I remembered something that an old professor of mine told me at seminary while discussing C.S. Lewis.
He described how Heaven is a place where our imagination runs rapidly. Everywhere, everything would be a reflection of the glory of God in our heart.
Just the glory of God in our heart. Just our Soul.
No skin, no clothes, no physical traits or attributes, no worldly thoughts or feelings would matter, none of that. Simply what we would have is the grace and truth promised in Jesus, the Word, and that is it.
Ask yourself, if your World was stripped from you today, would you rejoice for eternity because your life would only be consumed with God our Father?
This is an important question for Christians everywhere that bring the Bible up to be rules, and laws, and simplistic political institutions when the Kingdom of Christ is about detachment in the Kingdom of this World, and clinging on to the Kingdom of God.
#1 Misconception about this detachment from this world. It does look like apathy, but rather a purer form of empathy. To where we truly learn how to care for others as Jesus did, because we learn not to see one another as people, but rather souls. Some saved, some lost, but regardless of category, or color, origin of birth or age, salvation is always better shared.
The greats in history, Martin Luther King Jr., Augustine, Paul the Apostle, and many many others who history will remember, were not able to do great things because of their faith in this world, but because of the hope they had in Heaven.
If their world was stripped because of what they were fighting for, they would be spending eternity living in peace, love, and glory far beyond anything this World may offer.
They lived Heaven on Earth, an understanding and rest on that God’s Kingdom is far greater than any joy that this world will be able to ever bring.
