Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Is Our Conversation In Heaven?


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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