Do Something Today, So You Can Laugh At It Later

Listening to an old Francis Chan sermon and he says something like this,

"Do you realize that our bonds on earth will last far longer than you can imagine? 100 years from now, 1000 years from now we will be together in heaven, as children of God. It's gonna be like, 100 years from now, Me and Ben will be in heaven, and I will say, remember that time at Cornerstone when we thought about us talking to each other in heaven 100 years from now? That was in like 2005, and here we are in 2105 and its happening?"

Francis goes on to say something that is kind of convicting for me, he says,

"We don't think about Heaven enough."

Honestly, heaven to me isn't something I think about much and in some ways that is good, and other ways that is bad.

How is it good? Well, I guess it shows that my faith isn't motivated by me wanting to simply share in eternal life and wanting to avoid the fire.

The bad? Well let's see, I don't think of the eternal fate of my friends enough, so I don't have urgency in trying to urge them to accept Christ. I don't think about how my actions on earth echo in heaven, and how my constant failures must be acknowledged before my maker and mighty king. Oh this list could go on forever.

I guess what I am trying to say is, I really want to think about heaven more.

I wish I had this overwhelming fire in my loins that kept me forging always ahead to expand the kingdom of God. I want so much to be a soul winner, and to be someone who helps others find Christ, but without a heavenly disposition it feels ill fated. I wish that the idea of FOREVER really resonated within me and that I could grasp the greatness of the fact that after my life on earth is done, my eternity will be spent praising Jesus. Grasping the greatness of heaven is something I wish I could do. I wish I could get you to do it too.

In the mean time, listen to this song, and download it on itunes when you get a chance. It is the new Steve Fee song, Glory to God Forever.

Try to think about the Forever part of it.