“When ye pray, say, Our Father...Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.”
(Lk. 11:2)
I say this without any fear of being corrected: if Jesus Christ is not your hero here on earth, I’m sure you’re not suited for heaven. He is the center of attention there; He is Heaven’s Hero. You might say, and rightly so, He is the talk of the town. Moses, Paul, Peter, John, Luther, Calvin, Spurgeon, and Augustine all dwarf in the light of His presence. There is only one big shot in heaven; the rest of us are little squirts.
In that place of endless day we spend our time in worshiping, serving, singing, adoring, and loving God’s only Son, His Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ. It will be a full-time job of which we will enjoy every eternal moment of that long day. In the Lord’s Prayer (actually it is the Family Prayer) we are to pray God’s children will do on earth as they do in heaven. Earth is preparatory for heaven. Our heavenly home will someday be on this earth.
We who are hopelessly and helplessly in love with the Lover of our souls, should be in a habitual state of homesickness. The worldling would be miserable in heaven for they, like us, would continually suffer homesickness also, but for a different place, the place they left, the world. The gospel singer Squire Parsons sings a song, “Some call it heaven, but I call it home.” O my friend, it will be good to be home. Will it not?
Evangelist D.L. Moody said of heaven: "If I'm dreaming, don't wake me, let me dream on."
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