So ACF held our retreat this past weekend. It was pretty sweet. I hadn't really gotten a chance to know any of the freshmen yet, but I did at the retreat and of course Matt Cohen was sharing with us, but there was one thing that kind of bugs me. It's about what Matt said Saturday morning or more about what he didn't say.
Saturday morning he was talking about heaven and how most view heaven compared to how the bible describes heaven. The part that has been bothering me was he said about the up in the clouds kind of heaven that most people think of is boring and dull, and then he went on to read from revelation about what heaven will really be like. All I thought for the rest of that time was how screwed up our view of heaven and of God is.
When we die we get to have a perfect relationship with God and spend eternity worshiping him. That's AWESOME!!! I could care less about my perfected body or the new earth or the capital city 1,000 miles high and 1,000 miles wide. It's not the place, heaven, that makes it paradise, but the heavenly state we will be in of being able to spend eternity in a right relationship with God and with NO SIN!!! No matter what the surroundings are, that is going to be amazing. It's good to know what heaven will be like, but I could care less if it's the new earth heaven, the cloudy heaven, or any other heaven you can imagine. We should be excited about going to heaven because we finally get to restore our relationship with God because that is what's going to make heaven heavenly.
Because of his grace and for his glory
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