Eye Has Not Seen

Most people in America believe in heaven, but when you begin the dig deeper, most have differing opinions as to what heaven will be. Some people think that heaven will be like an eternal church service...without the preaching. Everyone knows an eternity of preaching would not be heaven! You know, sitting around in choir robes, singing some fabulous worship songs, and enjoying a great time of worship. That would be cool for a while, but for some of us hyper-active people, after a decade or so, we would be looking at our watches wondering with this is going to end. I'm kinda in to the spectacular. While I enjoy a good worship time as much as the next person, I'm looking forward to hanging out with God when He is doing some of those amazing things like speaking the universe into existence, or creating unique things like giraffes and those running lizards that look like a movie monster. Man, that will be heaven for me.

They reality is, none of us have a real grasp of how wonderful heaven is going to be. Whatever our concept is, it will be infinitely more wonderful. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 2:9: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.”  Let me say it again. No matter how wonderful your concept of heaven is, it falls drastically short of what it really is. 


So as we begin this week of thinking about heaven, let's just begin by trying to understand that every other place on earth pales in comparison to the splendor of our heavenly home!