The New Heaven and the The New Earth

I'm reading about Hope in Jesus. About how this "hope" as described in the bible leads us to eternal life. We are Hoping for our eternal life living in the presence of God. I've been thinking about this a lot.

So... What if that Heaven is here, now, and we can't see it. We have to choose to see it. Or we have to get to that eternal life with Jesus before our eyes are opened to it?

The bible also says that God's presence is already here, with us. The Holy Spirit lives inside of me. God is walking this life next to me.

How will I feel when I see Jesus face to face? When I am faced with the glory and the beauty of God? Well, right now, I can't even make it through one worship song at church without completely falling apart with the weight of God's presence in the room. I am crying with Hope, with an outpouring of Love, with the weight of God's mercies that have been showered on me for the last week. With gratefulness that I've made it, yet again, to church. For the weight of my family, who hasn't made it, yet again. Am I crying because I haven't felt these feelings for an entire week? Hmmm...

How different would life be if I lived with that weight every minute of every day? Would it even be a weight? Weight is probably the wrong word for it. It's like the weight of your father's arm around your shoulders. Not really a weight as much as a protection or a blanket. A presence.

How would that affect how I treated other people? How would that affect how I treated myself? How would that affect how I thought about life, or the choices that I made?

Kids are waking up. i'm going to revisit this tomorrow morning.
K

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