Psalm 69:34 “Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and all that move in them.”
I’ve been thinking a lot about Heaven these days. I love to walk on the beach and look out to the sea, and feel the wind on my face, and I feel so close to Heaven and to God when I am there. Dwight L. Moody said, “A little faith will bring your soul to Heaven, but a lot of faith will bring Heaven to your soul.” There are some things on this planet that bring a “little bit of Heaven” to my soul. Sitting out on my deck and watching the sunset, sitting on a grassy slope with bare feet on a hill that overlooks the ocean, and sitting on the beach with my feet in the sand breathing in deep the salty air and listening to the crashing waves, the seagulls crying, and feeling the gentle wind as the sun is setting on the horizon. It is during those times that I stop for just a moment and give thanks to the Creator who made all these beautiful things in my world possible. Whatever creates a touch of Heaven in my life for me is a gentle reminder that God loves me and that He wants me to be filled with His joy. My faith aligns with Him and my trust in Him makes that moment even greater, and I long that those moments would come more often.
Psalm 19:1-2 says, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.” God speaks His power into His creation and when I look at the beauty that He has “declared” and the sun and the skies that He has “proclaimed,” I cannot help but be in awe of His handiwork. The heavens have its own language and when I spend time with my Creator, there are no words that need to be spoken. My soul aligns with my God and I long to be where He is.
Ephesians 2:4-6 says, “But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions --it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.” The Message tells us that “God embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives, and made us alive in Christ. He picked us up and set us down in highest Heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.” Salvation brings spiritual life to the dead. The power that raises believers out of death, makes them alive, and it is this same power that energizes every aspect of Christian living. Heaven is the supernatural realm where God reigns and where Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God. This Heaven that God created is our inheritance; it is where our affections should be, where our thoughts should be, where we must place our hope. There is no hope here on Earth except to die in our sins, but God’s grace made a way for us to live for eternity and His Word promises us that we will be seated with Him and with our Savior, Jesus Christ, in the heavenlies, where we will enjoy fellowship with the Lord and with other believers. It is the realm from which all divine revelation has come and where all praise and petitions go.
Ephesians 1:3 says that God “has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.” God’s super abundant blessings belong to His children and we are blessed beyond measure with His spiritual blessings that come directly from the source of His divine nature, the realm of God’s complete heavenly domain, from which all blessings come, including His righteousness, His resources, His privilege, His position and His power. Everything that He has, belongs to us and we are to praise His Holy Name for giving us more abundantly than we could have ever hoped, dreamed or imagined. I know for me, I cannot wait to see Him; I cannot wait to spend time with my Creator, and to finally see my eternal home and His handiwork, where I will live in awe and wonder for the rest of my days.
– Melody
