Pure, Colorful & Peaceful
Always as white as freshly falling snow, accented by more vivid colors than the “human” eye can discern, a place where the warmth is ideally suited for each occupant and the welcomes are seen in the eyes and smiles of every familiar face. This is a house where there are no doors, no locks and no reasons for the concerns which created them in the first place. Throughout this house, the gentle breezes are perfectly regulated to assure a constant flow of the freshest air, the most sparkling water, where every open windowed vista reveals and invites nature, the ever changing crown jewel of the only truly royal kingdom. The melodies of the spirit, control the tempo of the mind. There is no shyness, no more judges, and wants simply don’t exist as all needs are provided for. The mountains are tall, the seas gently roll and glisten with sunlight passing through their sapphire and emerald waves. All life exists in harmony, survival isn’t a thought of the mind or a meaningful word in the vocabulary of life. Neither hunger nor pain can be felt, but love can’t be avoided. WELCOME, we’ve arrived at our home, in the Kingdom of God. Another promise fulfilled.
I heard our senior pastor once speak of a conversation that he had with his gravely ill father, a spirit filled man who’d said to his son, “you can’t scare me with heaven“. Those words were forever engraved in my mind. To be able to find such comfort in the Lord’s promises is indeed a counter-balancing blessing to the seemingly never-ending burdens and hardships of life. Jesus left the Kingdom of Heaven, to walk this same world. Whether He walked for 30, 33 or 43 years, is irrelevant, it was long enough to experience many of the same hardships that each of us already have or will someday experience. That however wasn’t his only experience, he’d lived vicariously with human pain and suffering from the moment that man ate the only forbidden fruit of this earth. Jesus tells us in Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven“. Although the Lord tells us what “heaven is like” in many of His parables, He stops short of a physical description, in much the same way God is not described physically. This is our limitation, not God’s. Heaven is not captive to our human or scientific ideologies, so descriptions would be of little value, to us with little understanding. I see heaven as the perfect place, physically, emotionally and spiritually, much as the Garden of Eden has presented itself in the vision of my mind. I find human comfort in this and pray you do also. After God’s will becomes ours, I trust we’ll be more pleasantly surprised.
JC Calkins with COMMON SENSE 4 UNCOMMON PEOPLE (to help others find us, please comment below)
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