Heaven

 I'm in a Bible study on Monday nights.
They are studying Heaven.
It seems very complicated.

We have discussed the Creation.
We have discussed the Fall.
We have explored the Wrath of God.

I wonder why it is so difficult to understand.

This is my understanding...

God created everything out of nothing.
God knows everything past, present and future.
God already knew.
God loves us so very much that he made us even though He knew we would fall short. He knew Eve would be deceived. He knew Adam would disobey. God still loves us.

God knew he would be sorry. He knew about the flood. He had a plan all along.

God knew he would give His Son for our sin.
Yet He made man anyway.
God knew many would never come to Him. But He loves Me.

God knew I would sin. He knew I would not be able to meet His perfection but He loves me.

God loves you. God loves me.

Because God is God He must be appeased. He is our Judge. We are sinners. God must judge us with death.

God sent His only Son Jesus Christ to live as a man, to be tempted with all of the temptations that we experience as men. Jesus Christ was tempted by the world, his own earthly flesh, and Satan himself. Jesus Christ did not sin. He met the mark. He met perfection.

Jesus did not have to die. He was God. He laid His life down for us. For you and me. He was the perfect sacrifice required to appease the wrath of God.

All I have to do is accept this free gift from God. God's Grace towards man.

God knows who will come yet He desires that All would come.
God knows that all will not come yet He still desires for All to come.
God loves us so much that even if just one would come He would do this.

How marvelous that I have come. I desire that all would come.

Heaven is the place God has already prepared for those who love Him to live forever with Him.

I don't know what it will look like. I don't know what my body will be. I just know that I will be with God forever. I know that I will be able to look into his face and live. I know that perfection will be there. I look forward to that day. Yet...I still want all to come...so I pray that God gives us more time...I know there will be a day when the door is shut...

Do you want to be on the wrong side of that door? The side that will have darkness forever? The side without God? The side with eternal despair and sorrow?

I am assured of being on the side of the door with God. I will be in light forever. I look forward to heaven whatever it may look like or be. It would be a wondrous place even if it were mud and we live in shacks. God will be there! We will be able to look at Him! We will understand the things which are clouded from us now.

However...God has prepared a place for us. The God who knew everything before it happened and yet still created us. The God who loves us so much He made it possible even while we were dead in our sin to be clean and live with Him. God has prepared a place for me. I in this earthly condition cannot even imagine what it will be like. But this I know...It will be perfect...It will be glorious...It will be Heaven.