tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415462951121361307.post4735026231272818791..comments2023-10-09T05:47:43.350-05:00Comments on An Open Door Blog: What Will Life be Like in Heaven?Jeff Bergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01851404940918850330noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415462951121361307.post-58287818620476669062009-04-24T12:41:00.000-05:002009-04-24T12:41:00.000-05:00Very well said by both of you!Very well said by both of you!Jeff Bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01851404940918850330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415462951121361307.post-89031300636091505872009-04-22T17:43:00.000-05:002009-04-22T17:43:00.000-05:00Some people see heaven as a place to float around ...Some people see heaven as a place to float around on a cloud strumming a harp. If I read my Bible correctly, we were made to do two things: 1) Fellowship with God, and 2) tend His creation. I doubt we'll have time to do much "resting", because we'll be busy doing as He directs, and spending time in His presence praising Him. Our aches and pains,suffering and tears, worries and fears will be gone, which will free us to be truly joyful in our obedience. All our doubts and questions will be answered, and we will finally know the whole Truth, freed to serve Him unfettered by sin any longer. I want to see my ancestors, and my favorite authors of Scripture, to hear them tell what it was like to write His Word.I want to see the place He has for me, and know it's mine forever. I want to see His face in its full glory with my friends and family around me, and sing with the angels. Nothing else matters.wardcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921223380364131039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-415462951121361307.post-38383851303389788332009-04-16T16:00:00.000-05:002009-04-16T16:00:00.000-05:00Mary O'Hara's character Nell in the novel "Thunder...Mary O'Hara's character Nell in the novel "Thunderhead" has this to say about heaven, dying, and our earthly journey: "But it isn't that way, Ken- that if we pray and ask for help we'll always get what we want, because very often we won't and aren't supposed to. This world isn't heaven or anything like it. We won't always be here- we just go through it. And there's death at the end of it- that's the door we go out by....I think there's a lot of silly fuss about dying. The animals know better- they see that this life is a gymnasium. A place of testing and training and trial and development. And we ought to take it that way. Not everyone can win what they want- but they make spiritual muscle trying for it, and giving it up, too. Everyone loses at the end- if you call dying losing. So the battle of life is a losing battle, but what you don't have to lose is your heart and courage...."<br />And thanks to Jesus we don't have to lose our soul.Carriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14352628028003121973noreply@blogger.com