I wonder what its really like? Paradise that is.
One moment your on a cross hanging, bleeding, rejected, hopeless and racked with pain and fading fast. Then it happens you open your eyes and its all there, God, eternity, angels, friends……….no more holes in your hands, no more blood, no more pain. O yes those new emotions, free from fear, free from rejection, agony and hopelessness. Now its pure paradise flowing through your immortal emotions. Your beginning to realize that no one can take this away, no one can steal, kill or destroy. Your looking around and nothing but brilliant light and O the colors. You see as you have never seen before. The sounds are like nothing you have ever heard.
Glorious beings, angels are attending to you. They wait and smile as you take it all in. They have seen this many times now. They are ready to speak and guide you around. You don’t fear them, somehow you know they are your brethren and they with all their power would never harm a hair on your now eternal head. You look left and then right, you finally look at your hands and feet. Your all there and I mean all of you. You are more you than you have ever been and somehow you know yourself as you have never known before…………….and its all good.
You fall to your knees and wonder how you could have ever made it here. You realize you don’t deserve it but that is over run with something more more persuasive, you are loved with a perfect love and every fiber of shame is gone.
You start jumping for joy, you are perfect in health, perfect in mind, and perfect in physical??? spiritual condition. You know you could run and never get tired, that you couldn’t fall or make a mistake. The atmosphere is charged with life, a presence you only tasted of before you closed your eyes to the old world.
Then it happens, all that you see, feel and think is but a blink…..you haven’t been there a minute or an hour, time is gone, your just there all at once. Your so overwhelmed but you know you can take in more, that’s when it happened. You look up at Someone who has been looking and waiting for you all this time. It is Him! He is the source of it all, they all know this and now you see His face. You remember perfectly:
”However, as it is written:
”No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him”1 Corinthians
You scream His name so loud, then you hear it for the first time, His voice
………………….Yes it is Me, JESUS
Your first moment there has erased a life time. Its not just the beginning, its forever and you have all the ‘time’ of eternity to look at what has been prepared for you. You have never realize it before but now you can feel it, its all for you, as if you were the only one.
A thief no more, more like royalty.
How can this be you have done nothing, its not your right, its a gift. Its as if mercy is the now the air you breath and grace is the radiance that rules.
So many questions, so many things to see but there is no anxiety……..you just simply know you’ll get to all of it. So you fix your eyes on your King and Friend, you want to hear His voice again. You don’t fear Him you embrace Him, He walks with you. No longer the suffering servant, He is God as He has always been and He is yours and you are His.
I guess we can only imagen for now, but its the taste you have now that tells you that this and so much more is waiting. ”Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.” 1 Peter 2 and…..”having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory. Eph. 1
Why we hang on here as if there is no there I don’t know. Yes we are all criminals, we have all sinned. That’s why pain and death exists. We have done this and the prison bars of this life are on our heads. At the cross God hangs with us, sinless and a substitute.
The cross is the wood between the worlds someone has sung. Jesus Christ purchased for us the right. There is no other way, Why? No one else could make a way. Some are digging tunnels to get out of the prison but they all lead to a different dead end. Why spend all that time on a direction and a work that never opens the prison doors?
”But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? 41We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.” 42Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” 43Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”Luke
HOPE YOU WILL BE THERE
Raze
