Even though as Christians we affirm
the reality of the spiritual realm, sometimes we succumb to naturalistic
assumptions that what we see is real and what we don’t see isn’t. Many people
conclude that God can’t be real, because we can’t see Him. And Heaven can’t be
real, because we can’t see it. But we must recognize our blindness. The blind
must take by faith that there are stars in the sky. If they depend on their
ability to see, they’ll conclude there are no stars.
Sitting here in what C. S. Lewis
called the Shadowlands, we must remind ourselves what Scripture tells us about
Heaven. We will one day be delivered from the blindness that obscures the light
of God’s world.
For many people—including many
believers—Heaven is a mysterious word describing a place that we can’t
understand and therefore don’t look forward to. But Scripture tells us
differently. What we otherwise could not have known about Heaven, God says He has revealed to us through His Spirit
(1
Corinthians 2:10). God tells us about our eternal home in His Word, not so
we can shrug our shoulders and remain ignorant, but because He wants us to
anticipate what awaits us and those we love, and because it has the power to transform the way we live
today.
Life on earth matters not because
it’s the only life we have, but precisely because it isn’t—it’s the beginning
of a life that will continue without end. It’s the precursor of life on the New
Earth. Eternal life doesn’t begin when we die; it has already begun. With
eternity in view, nearly any honest activity—whether building a shed, driving a
bus, pruning trees, changing diapers or caring for a patient—can be an
investment in God’s kingdom.
God is eternal. His Place is
eternal. His Word is eternal. His people are eternal. Center your life around
God, His Place, His Word, and His people, and reach out to those eternal souls
who desperately long for His person and His place. Then no matter what you do
for a living, your days here will make a profound difference for eternity—and you will be fulfilling the
biblical admonition to fix your eyes on what is unseen.
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