Look You in the Eye
There isn't necessarily any theological basis for this or anything, there isn't even any reason to think this would ever happen. But what if you spent eternity in the kind of heaven you designed while here on earth? What if heaven operated on the laws and rules you live your life by? What if people treated each other just as you've treated others in this life? Would you want to live in a heaven like that? I think it might look way too much like this world. I pretty much spent most of my life living a sort of Christian "escapism" life. One where Good is unattainable. Where we're no good, but forgiven, and heaven will be a place where it all gets better. I think those things are true but... I think this can be toxic thinking for a Jesus follower if it leads to some sort of fatalism about our potential in this world. Or believing we simply can't actually do any good that our Father would be proud of. Listening to one ...