Issue 806 – Been Thinking – July 25, 2022
We are back from our road trip to Edmonton. The goal was to take my mom back home and then catch up on some visiting we hadn’t had time for before on the last quick trip.
Unfortunately, I came down with a nasty bug, so we turned around and came straight back home. We didn’t want to expose our friends to it. A little disappointing, but life happens.
I love this picture of “the thinking tree” in Italy. I have never seen it in person, but it is a popular photo subject. It looks as if it has been pondering the deep questions of life for a long time.
Someone once said of me, “Walk a mile in his shoes, and you will know him better, but spend ten minutes in his brain, and it will terrify you.” I don’t know if that is precisely accurate, but I have been accused of thinking about weird stuff.
I have been thinking about heaven lately. I have been pondering the imponderable, imagining the unimaginable.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” Revelation 21:1-4
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Revelation 21:22-27
What a beautiful place, even more so because the Lord will be there.
My thoughts took a strange turn as I pondered eternity with the Lord.
Heaven, glory, is the dwelling place of our perfect, holy God. As such, it must be perfect and complete. That seems self-evident to me.
Yet, God has a place for us there, meaning heaven is to some degree incomplete. As the saints from all the ages are called home, it becomes more complete, more fully as the Lord designed it.
Heaven with the Lord is perfect and complete, yet incomplete and won’t be fully ready until all His children are home. That seems a paradox to me. I can’t reconcile the two truths in my mind, yet I know both are true.
There are many things about the Lord that my finite little mind cannot comprehend. That is to be expected. If I could understand everything about God, He wouldn’t be much of a god.
I know I am looking forward to being there with Him. How about you?
Hallelu Yah (Praise God)
Be blessed
Kevin.
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Soli Deo Gloria (for the glory of God alone.)
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