What is your vision of Heaven? Are you longing for the eternal or are you loathing the thought? Will you be jiving with the heavenly hosts or will you be sitting back with a glazed look in your eyes? Will He great us with open arms or will His greatness make us shrink back in fear?
These are thoughts that run through my head at times and at others I don't give the idea of heaven much of a second thought. Sometimes it is just that "place we Christians go" after our earthly death. But what will heaven be like?
These thoughts once again surfaced after being informed of the upcoming release of Andrew Peterson's newest album, "The Far Country" Here is what he has to say about the subject.
These are thoughts that run through my head at times and at others I don't give the idea of heaven much of a second thought. Sometimes it is just that "place we Christians go" after our earthly death. But what will heaven be like?
These thoughts once again surfaced after being informed of the upcoming release of Andrew Peterson's newest album, "The Far Country" Here is what he has to say about the subject.
'God is at home. We are in the far country.'- Meister Eckhart
I read that quote in an Annie Dillard book several years ago and it never left me. Too often we tend to imagine that heaven is a cotton-white cloudscape, a place that doesn't seem desirable to us here in this sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrifying world. We're comfortable here, and the skewed notion we have of eternity is that it's like a never-ending church service, where we'll be standing mindlessly around a throne, singing bad praise songs to a white haired God for the rest of our existence. From what I know about God, what I've read of Him in scripture and what I've seen of Him in what has been made - towering mountains, howling wind, purple budded trees, a baby's touch and a panther's roar - He is not a tame God. The City He's prepared for us is not a retirement home. Zion is not a country club. Death is but the cusp of a great adventure, hinted at in Hebrews 11, 'People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own...they were longing for a better country - a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.' The songs on this record were born out of a longing for that better country, and it's my hope that whoever listens to them will feel that God-given flutter in the stomach that reminds us who we are - and where we're bound.
