heaven

this weekend, the topic at the 310 Bible study retreat was "heaven." it was a blessed time of rest, worship and fellowship... bittersweet though, as it was my last one. foundry/310 retreats have been wonderful, and i will miss them very much.

we can debate the "what it is," "what it ain't" and "what it will be" for forever, but we truly won't really know until we actually get there. God gives us snapshots in the Bible, but what will it really be like to be completely sinless? if our worship now is just a small taste of what it will be when we get to heaven, how absolutely incredible will it be there? what will our glorified bodies be like? how old will we be if age even exists? i can't even begin to imagine or grasp it all, but such is my finite mind vs. the infinite mind of God. 1 corinthians 13:12 says, "for now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now i know in part, but then i will know fully just as i also have been fully known." one can get so bogged down with all the trivial questions and "what if's." the important thing is that heaven does exists, and only true blood-bought Christians have a hope for going there through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Bible clearly states this in john 14:6 - "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." Jesus is THE ONLY WAY.

it saddens me to think of all the people i know that i will not be sharing eternity with...

i pray that the hope of heaven will continue to drive us all everyday. i pray we won't get so lost in the world that we forget the true purpose of our lives. everything else shall pass away...

...oh yeah, and who would've thought that we could be so creative with hot dogs, huh? impressive, 310 :)