heaven is a wonderful place.. filled with glory and grace

so heritage has a bible study. and tonight the discussion was if there was no heaven would you still be a christian? my first response was basically no.. that i would follow the moral guide lines of Christianity but i could not see myself worshiping jesus who would be then just a man. the next question was what is heaven to you. we all described our peaceful waterfall, soothing grass hills and lots of flowers (it was mainly girls tonight). Jared who was leading the discussion than said, wouldnt you get bored if all heaven was, was that. heaven should be thought of not as a home.. but as meeting in person, the one we on earth have learned to love. Jesus, God. heaven is getting to know them even more and learning even more about them. imagine those moments when you feel Gods presence.. its overwhelming, it makes you want to cry and laugh and jump around hug and sing and run and scream.. now imagine meeting that person face to face.. that is heaven.

it made me think about how shallow i was. my first response. i thought about it in such an earthly secular way. and now after this talk i was relieved. on earth all i worry about is where im going to go, where i need to live. heaven to me was just another place to worry about. am i going to make it, will i have rest.. what is the cost? not that its any less scary, but its scary in a different way now.. if i am so in love with Christ, i would do anything, anything to be with Christ forever. Christianity is sometimes sold to unbelievers by asking whether they want to get to heaven.. or go to hell. that is not the point of our faith. it should not be our selling point.

it was a good discussion.. think about it.