In consolation or self-rebuke, we might say, “This world is not my home.” If we were honest, however, we might add, “But part of me sure wishes it were.” Why? Because we know we’re going to leave this behind. Sometimes when we look at this world’s breathtaking beauty-standing in a gorgeous place where the trees and flowers and rivers and mountains are wondrous-we feel a twinge of disappointment. Rather than ignore our imaginations, I believe we should fuel them with Scripture, allowing them to step through the doors that Scripture opens. If God didn’t want us to imagine what Heaven will be like, he wouldn’t have told us as much about it as He has (or, conversely, He would have told us everything there was to know). I believe that God expects us to use our imagination, even as we recognize its limitations and flaws. Scripture provides us with a substantial amount of information, direct and indirect, about the world to come, with enough detail to help us envision it, but not so much as to make us think we can completely wrap our minds around it.

and has a real bearing on our daily life.”

Griffith Thomas wrote, “The consideration of heaven is no mere spiritual luxury, no mere intellectual dissipation, no imaginative revelry, but is really and definitely practical and suitable. Whether our hearts are heavy or light, whether recent days have brought us joy or sorrow or both, there is something soul stirring about contemplating what God has promised us and what Christ shed His blood and rose to guarantee us-eternal life with Him and His people in a land of never-ending wonder.Īs W. I find many people thirsty for more insight. Over the years I’ve received thousands of letters and had hundreds of conversations with people about the Heaven books.

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