Thought 18: Next Stop-Everlasting

Just how serious are we ?




Have you ever sat on a bus without knowing your destination ? 
Even if you had never been to your destination before, you had some idea of where you are headed, surely?

Sometimes as Christians, we lose focus of our goal, right?

We have been consumed in a world that says "Live for now, and now only"
We have forgotten about our preparations for heaven and as time goes, they become less and less important, do they not ?
Even the very idea of heaven seems...well, too surreal to us now, does it not?

What does this mean exactly ?
Is this the time for the separation of those who actually want to go heaven and those who have a need of heaven?
Is it the time where the 'tares are separated from the wheat' as the Bible says?

What are we doing to secure our place in Heaven?
Or is the 'glory' of the world just too much to resist?
Is the temptation, not a temptation anymore but actually part of a daily routine?

I'm reminded of a close friend. 
This girl, I will not expose her name because of the nature of the topic.
You see, she's one of the 'good church girls'. The ones that organise everything in church, dress perfectly, sing in the choir sort of thing. The one that everyone admires for their admiration for God and for church. The one that you never ever expect to 'rebel' and join the rest of us, not doing what we KNOW is right.
When I did find out she was clubbing underage(not a crime to some people, but as a saintly church girl..completely out of character for her)..she told me she was basically tired of who she is..she just wanted to 'try' things. Not like she was going to carry on.

I recently found an incriminating photograph of her basically being groped by a male in a nightclub, of which she is underage to be in.
A part of me felt to spread it around(cruel as it is) as if to say "Ha! Look at the good girl now" but I realised, there's nothing to gain from it except a nasty feeling on unnecessary 'revenge' when she never actually did anything to me. She is actually a nice person. At church, she still the same. Preaching at other people in fact, about their 'bad habits'..

You may wonder why I have included her under this...but it just shows the extent we go to cover up our real wants. 

"We want the world..but we know we need Heaven"
Even though we know we know we need God, we want to go to Heaven..but the effort its just too much isn't it?

Jesus being picked on, spit on, beaten, bleeding, pinned down on the cross...was just too little effort just so that me and you could get a chance to be in a world that is perfect. So perfect that we fail to imagine what it is actually like. We have been programmed to imagine things don't last, which they don't. Not in this world anyway. Why can't heaven be a place for you and me to actually want to KILL for ?
Just like that celebrity's life you would KILL to live like ?
Heaven is open.
Are we ?