How Ready Are We For Heaven? (essay)

If we humans were not all separated from each other by our separate individual minds in our separate bodies, but were totally able to read each other's minds, -- nothing could be hidden, there could be no secrets among us. Ephesians describes this kind of unity in the Spirit as a desirable thing. Jesus prayed for it in chapter 17 of the Gospel of John: for us to be together in Him as He is together with The Father in Him.

Is this what heaven will be like? This is how Godly life is described in the Bible.

"Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." (John 3:20-21 NIV)

"Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men's hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God." (1st Corinthians 4:5 NIV)

Nothing is hidden. All is revealed in the bright illumination of light.

Could anyone start a war when no one could have any secret weapons of mass destruction? Will heaven be like this?

Brothers and Sisters, in preparing for Heaven, do we not need to be thinking as if our thoughts are transparent to other people as they are already now to God? They will be in Heaven. Do we not actually need to be thinking and behaving with nothing but pure motives and with no deceptions toward other people in our sanctifying practice in preparation for living in Heaven?

We know this is what God wants us to do anyway, but we see here the practical value of it in getting ready for Heaven. Do we take Heaven seriously? We would say: Yes! Why then don't we think in terms of preparing for it? Isn't it strange that most of us don't? Isn't it a good idea to think and do the way we need to be thinking and need to be doing in getting ready for Heaven?

Won't it be a shock to find ourselves in the midst of the joys of Heaven and not be ready for the complete love and totally honest life style of Heaven? Remember, GOD IS TRUTH. How many of us will be comfortable with the honesty and experience complete joy in the universal love of Heaven because we followed God's commands here that prepare us for Heaven? How many of us are this serious with our thinking and in what we do in our Christian Walk? If the degree of our readiness for Heaven is any indication of the certainty of our salvation, how many of us are really going to be there?


--Ellis