Php
3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ
Is your
conversation in heaven?
Eph
2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God
We are
fellow citizens with the saints and household of God. The household of God!
Heb
12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels
The
heavenly Jerusalem.
An
innumerable company of angels.
Heaven is
far from empty and I'm not talking about the great deceptive lie of Satan's
about us leaving our bodies upon death and going to heaven to live- that is not
scriptural at all. The Bible tells us the dead know nothing. The Bible calls
death a sleep. There are clear scriptural passages that tell us that men like
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Noah, and others will not be in heaven without
us. No human being other than a very select few are in heaven right now. Elijah
was translated without seeing death. So aside from a very few human beings,
heaven is filled with angels, with God, with Jesus Christ. Heaven, where our treasures are to reside.
Heaven, where our conversation is to be. Or another meaning for conversation in
this verse is citizenship- either one works towards the same end. If our
citizenship is in heaven, if our treasures are to be in heaven- our
conversation most assuredly should be in heaven. Our thoughts need to be in
heaven, they do, but so often they are so filled with only earthly things-
heaven is far, far from what we are thinking about.
Just today
there was a little tiff happening and when little tiffs happen you know how
your thoughts can turn inward, or outwards towards the one you're tiffing with.
Well as my thoughts started to veer outwards towards the one I was tiffing with
another thought popped in my head (and this thought I like to say and believe
was the Holy Spirit guiding me). The thought was- 'Don't think of that person,
think of Me, think of Jesus.' So, I thought of Jesus instead, by the grace of
God.
Taking our
minds off the earthly and putting them towards the heavenly, this is what we
need to do a lot more often than we do.
Are we
truly looking for Jesus? If so we need to have our thoughts heavenward.
A lot of
people right now are speculating on the nearness of Christ's return. May this
wake up call, this sounding of the alarm be truly heeded and may people with
all sincerity and truth in their hearts prepare for Christ's return! We don't
know when it will be, but we know it will be.
God help
us all! Let us truly live for HIM and no other.
All
through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, now and forever!!!!!!!
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