Saturday, December 26, 2009

Now or later?

So the other night I was having the worst time praying. You know those times where you have to constantly stop yourself from thinking about everything else and tell yourself to pray. I finally became so frustrated with myself that I said outloud "AHH I am so sick of this! I cannot wait to just walk around in heaven and talk to You all day without being interrupted by some pathetic little human thought!" After the words came out of my mouth I kinda had a duh moment. All of my life I have heard pastors and Christians say that if you are truly a Christian you cannot wait to die and go to Heaven. I always feel awful when I hear that because even though I'm sure heaven is incredible and like nothing I've ever seen before, the truth is I don't want to die yet. I mean, I have alot of things I wanna do for God before my life is over. Here is the truth, nobody in the world wants to burn forever in Hell, and everyone would love to live an eternity in some crazy awesome place where the streets are made of gold and all of that I mean that is sort of a no brainer right? But our little brains cannot think past this life on earth most times, and when you take into account all of the people you love in this world and all the plans you have made you can't help but think that you would rather stay. I believe I have been thinking of Heaven wrong the whole time. When they say every christian should desire to go to Heaven, it isn't because up there they have the huge mansions and all you can eat buffets, it's because it will be like it was with Adam and Eve. We'll be able to talk to God without fighting our human selves every step of the way. We will be able to talk without any worldly interruptions. We will be able to praise Him all day long without catching ourselves making up grocery lists in our heads. In the past I believed that the Bible didn't say a whole lot about Heaven, but the truth is it doesn't have to say alot about Heaven. All I need to know is that we get to spend eternity with our maker, and savior.

1 comment:

  1. Yeah I feel ya. It's really hard sometimes to think in terms of eternity. But I'm proud of you for striving toward thinking that way :)

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