Message from Scripture: 8/31/2020

Today’s message from Scripture is Phil. 3:21; “Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

When the word heaven is spoken, I think of the chorus of that great hymn we sing, “Heaven holds all to me, brighter its glory will be, joy without measure, will be my treasure, heaven holds all to me.”

But just what is heaven like? We know what is true of the physical existence we have, but heaven is far superior because it isn’t a physical place, it isn’t susceptible to all the things that are true of the flesh. Scripture doesn’t identify what this spiritual place is in detail, because we have no frame of reference to compare it to. Outside of life in the church, we haven’t seen or experienced anything like it. Until we are actually there, we cannot know fully and completely.

Two things, though, are present in heaven we can relate to today. It’s a place where we will always want to worship our God (Rev. 4 & 5). It is also a place where we will always want to serve our God. “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence” (Rev. 7:15). We should ask ourselves, if we don’t want to worship or serve God when we have the opportunity to do so today, why would that be desirable to us in heaven for all eternity? Is it simply because the alternative is eternal punishment? Also, we should seriously ask if we will have the opportunity to worship and serve God forever, when we tend to avoid it today? What do you think?

During His earthly ministry, Jesus had a preference to worship God (Luke 4:16) and came to serve Him (John 5:30). Let’s do what another song we sing bids us, "More like You, Jesus, more like You. Fill my heart with your desire, to make me more like You." Today, live for Jesus. God bless. 

Robert