I Can Only Guess...

I love to write and I have always dreamed of being a poet or a song writer, but those are not gifts that God has given me. I am more of a prose person. Yet, I can admire the words penned by the great song writers. One of my favorite songs is " I Can Only Imagine" by MercyMe.

The truth of the song rings loud and clear. We can only imagine what Heaven will be like. God has given us glimpses of Heaven, but what we can imagine and glean from those glimpses is nothing compared to what Heaven is really like.

Heaven is where God has chosen to rule and reign, to make His home. When we get there we will first have to face judgment. Not for our sins, because being Christians we are forgiven and our place in Heaven is secure. But we will have to give an accounting for how faithful we were, did we live for Him, did we show Christ how thankful we were for our salvation, and how much we worked to help bring others to salvation?

After our encounter, where I fear we will all be humbled, we will enter the realms. We will see loved ones, meet the saints of history, walk past the crystal sea as we find ourselves drawn to the Throne Room to fall and worship our Lord. It is then that we will shout "Glory! Praise Jesus! Alleluia! Holy! Holy is the Lamb!"

There will be no more tears for us, we will be too busy for that. Too busy in the presence of our Lord.

I also think our questions will be answered in time. We will find out that God does indeed have a sense of humor, we will find out just what certain passages in the Bible mean, and we will know if Adam and Eve had belly buttons!

I can only imagine how we will fill the days, weeks, months, years, millenia. I can only imagine how amazing it will be. To be surrounded by the glory that is God, to be with the souls that love and serve Him, to meet the angels, to see unblemished, untarnished beauty, to get to worship my Lord and learn what true worship is. Heaven is a wonderful place!

I can only imagine a dim view of Heaven, but I know that someday my imagining will be over and He will call me home, till then I pray for help as I journey through life and try to earn a "Well done my good and faithful servant, welcome home!"

-JLP-