With real life comes real death. With death comes grief. Sometimes immediately, sometimes later… always lasting for loved ones.
And they will never die again. In this respect they will be like angels. They are children of God and children of the resurrection. – Luke 20:36 NLT
This story is not a real picture of heaven. It is a story about grief.
We need to look to scripture to see the true picture. We need to READ what the Bible has to say about the NON-fiction of eternal life. We will one day see the urgency of understanding the picture of the alternative beyond death of this decaying flesh. This story, however, is fiction.
I tell A Picture of Heaven as wandering thoughts about death which do ambush us from time to time. The origin of my wanderings emanate from at least one real life/death experience.
A little more than thirteen years ago, we sat through a similar scene… when my former wife died.
Not too long before her death, a friend and neighbor had met with instant death in an accident. One evening his daughter, our babysitter, pointed toward a star in the sky as my daughter looked up and comforted her with the thought that every time she looked up she could see her dad.
It was not a Biblical picture for our six year old daughter, but it was helpful.
When you and I want a true picture of heaven we must look much higher than our own experience to a God we cannot see and do not understand except through scripture and prayer.
Faith in Jesus Christ is the only way anyone will get to heaven, where there will be no more death and no more tears – NO grief.
I would like to point you to the place where you fit in the scene of our 14-part serial story. At one time or another you may experience most of these perspectives.
What will you do now…
to face the eventual last episode of your story?
You might want to pause for reflection and prayer as you consider each episode.
To be continued… God willing… tomorrow, 3 September, 2013, M-F until the conclusion.
Job 10:9
will you turn me back to dust so soon?
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