"But you have come to Mount Zorn, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come a thousands upon thousands of angel in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose name are written in heaven.
Hebrew 12:22-23
Do you notice anything odd about that verse? It's the verb tense. The writer of Hebrew says we "have already come" to heaven. Resurrection promises are never written for the far and distance future but rather for the here and now.
God want us to here a present-tense excitement, a right-around the-corner anticipation of heaven. He wants us to realize that we are already seated with Christ in heavenly places, "having our conversation in heaven," As far as God is concerned, the coming of the Lord is at hand, ready to explode on the world's stage at any moment.
The resurrection throbs with present-tense excitement when we learn to invest our days in eternity. When we sit close as a heartbeat. The future, the distance, and the vague will appear as the present, the near, and the real. The kingdom of God is within you, Jesus said, and it what's our appetite for kingdom fulfillment at any day, any moment.
Alively hope of heaven will bring forward the things that most believers call invisible and distant. Such a hope will disclose to you the heavenly mansion, the happy courts, the adoring multitudes. It' open your ears to hear heavenly melodies, to catch the very words of angel anthems.
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