The Place called Heaven!
I taught that song to my boys when they were very small.
The reality of a place called heaven looms larger now in my life than perhaps any other time. I can say with all sincerity I am homesick for that place. I of course have never been there, and yet I feel an upward tug, a pull that I can’t shake. It’s something I wouldn’t shake if I could!
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." - C.S. Lewis
I am not being morbid on this Monday, even though Mondays are often tough days for me. Why you ask? The buildup of the week, the excitement of Sunday, bringing Gods Word to His people, then wondering “Did I do all I could, and was the Gospel clearly presented”?
I know of no other calling in the World where the eternal state and stake of human beings hangs in the balance! To preach is the highest honor. Think of it, to speak on behalf of God, week by week, to have the attention of people, who maybe more than any other time of the week, have a chance to listen, to be attentive…to hear news that can liberate, and set their feet toward the place called heaven….is an honor, and a heavy responsibility!
I am often cognizant that my next sermon could be my last sermon. Every Pastor should preach…
1. As if it was the first time.
2. As if it was the best time.
3. As if it was the last time!
Live each day as if it were your last, because one day it will be!
When that day comes for me, I will be with the Lord Jesus Christ, and the redeemed of the ages! Why...
It is because as a teenager living in North Carolina I asked Jesus Christ to forgive my sins, and be my forever friend. He did, and I am heading someday, one day for a place called heaven.
The Apostle Peter writing of our Lord Jesus and his incredible courage displayed on the cross wrote:
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 23When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. 24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 25For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. (1st Peter 2: 22-25).
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth., meaning everything he said, everything he did…was always true, always trustworthy. He has promised me a home! I have loved ones who have gone on, and wait for me. Soon faith will give way to sight!
Until then, I want to live for my King, I want to love my family, and I want to serve His people….along the way to the place called heaven!
The song that follows was sung by Chip Dorton, a graduate of the prestigious Julliard School of music, Chip left this life to depart to be with Christ, not long after he sung this song...about a place called heaven!
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