Heaven

With the recent deaths taking place around me, I've been thinking a lot lately about heaven. Even the singers at our fifth Sunday night singing sang several songs about heaven. I guess it's safe to say I've got heaven on my mind.

And that's okay.

Please don't misunderstand, I'm very blessed and happy here in my earthly home and ministry. It's just that the Bible and the voice of Holy Spirit in my heart have so convinced me that heaven is better than here that I spend a lot of time thinking about what it will truly be like.

I know that it is more beautiful than my earthly mind is able to even contemplate and as I realize that, I don't really focus on the beauty of it. I do, however, think a lot about the sounds. I did a Bible Study once by a man who said that the Lord had given him a vision of Heaven and one of his greatest impressions of that vision was the musical sounds that permeated his whole vision so completely.

I can hardly wait for the singing.

But what I think about most of all when I have heaven on my mind is Jesus. I want to see Him. I want to hold Him and experience Him holding me. I want to fall on my face before Him and thank Him for my salvation and the forgiveness of my sins. I want to weep tears of gratitude and shout exclamations of joy.

I don't have a lot of questions and I don't need a lot of answers about things I don't understand. I settled in my heart long ago that everything God does is right and good and perfect whether I understand it or not.

I just need Jesus.

I have His Presence, Power, Provision and Peace with me everyday here but I just feel that it will be gloriously different when I'm living right in the middle of His Heavenly home. Through Calvary, He has made it possible for His home to be my home and I'm so glad He did.

Just as I needed to be saved and even now want more of Jesus in my heart and life, so there are millions all around us who need Him. Pray for revival. Pray that God's power and Holy Spirit will sweep our land. Pray that His people will turn again to Him so that He will heal our land and forgive our sin. Pray. Earnestly. Fervently. Persistently. Humbly.

Pray. As we await the time when He will call us to His blessed heaven, there is nothing more powerful that we can do to see the world around us changed to glorify Him.

In His Love
Walter