“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven” (Luke 6:23, NKJV).
“Your reward is great.” What do we understand by the word “great”? Enormous. Massive. Good to the “nth” degree! So very, very good that, if you could grasp it, you truly would leap up in the air for joy!
God does not exaggerate. If anything, He understates, as we have discussed here. Your eternal reward is that good. So good, in fact, that it’s worth getting truly joyful over now. That’s what Jesus is saying here. And He also doesn’t lie. He is entirely incapable of lying. So if He says it’s that good, it really is that good. If He says it’s worth getting uber happy about right now, it really is!
So try this with me. Take an extended moment and imagine the most beautiful life you can. Put some thought into it. What is the most luxurious house you could think up? What places would you like to travel to? Who would you travel with? What pastimes would you love to engage in for unlimited hours and days and weeks? What new, expensive experiences would be a dream come true for you? What lush articles of clothing would you delight to wear daily? What delicacies would you relish, if you could eat without limit and without worry for calorie intake? What art and beauty would you surround yourself with? What live music would you want to listen to in copious amounts? What emotions of happiness, peace, and belonging do you long to enjoy without interruption?
And… even more than all of the above… what kind of intimacy with God are you craving?
Did you take some time to stretch your imagination to the limit with each of those questions? Okay, good. You have not even begun to imagine how good heaven is. All of your imagining is only the tiniest drop out of heaven’s ocean.
It’s going to be Ephesians 3:20 better than that. Infinitely better.
It will be “infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all…” (Eph. 3:20, TPT).
Rejoice and leap for joy!
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How often do you think about heaven? Have you asked God to fill your heart with the hope of it, to make it real to you instead of just a theoretical, far-away concept?
Feeding On Jesus 
Wow! To imagine ‘even the tiniest drop of Heaven’s water’ is our biggest dreams. I can’t even imagine this Joy and can’t wait! 🙏🥰
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Yes!!! Paul was sooooo right when he said that going there will be better by far!
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Reblogged this on Love and Love Alone.
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I am truly grateful! 😎
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It is … with me
the man Jesus
never event in me
to no experience
become in me
what the soul
every day
says to me
accompanies me
every hour
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Yes, He is with you always!
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Can you explain to me, please
what a man my skin
without that I can remember it
touched myself?
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His touch is not skin-to-skin. It is Spirit-to-spirit, and so much deeper than the skin
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If someone knows that Jesus is a real being, then I am not allowed to say anything about it.
The scriptures confirm your belief.
In my experience, Jesus Christ had never become an event in me.
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Do you want to experience Jesus’ presence personally for yourself?
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Can you please explain how a deceased ancestor, from the history of scriptures, can take a personal presence?
To whom an idol means substantial truth, I cannot put forward any counter-arguments.
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He is the Living God! These are His words:
Rev 1:18
I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore.
NKJV
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We humans do the best we can to imagine heaven. For me, somewhere there, you’ll find a gently sloping yard with a swing positioned under a hickory tree. Low humidity, 75 or so degrees, and a gentle breeze. Sitting in the wing, smiling and waiting, is my grandmother, with arms ready to embrace. Someday, I will feel that embrace again. . . . Mike
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sitting in the swing, I mean 🙂
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When I read this, tears of great joy welled up and spilled over. I found these words flowing out of my spirit: “Yes, you will, dear brother, yes you will!!” Truly, thank you so, so much for sharing something so special and sacred!
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If asked, we all could conjure up a core memory of “home,” where we felt the safest and most loved; closest to heaven, if you like. That’s my picture 🙂
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That insight is just so incredibly powerful and right on. Again, thank you!!
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There’s no way to quantify how precious your picture is. But I want to meet your grandma when we get there!
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We’ll make it happen. But come hungry– her yeast rolls were heavenly on earth, so I can only imagine how good they are now!
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Chuckling happily, I will absolutely do that!
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What a true joy it is to read the greatness of God in the internet realm. Thank you for such an inspiring post. Blessings and honor, Christine C Sponsler
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“Blessings and honor.” I really like that. Thank you so much, Christine!
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I use that as my signature because I pray blessings over the person I am writing it to and have the honor of watching what the LORD is doing in our lives 😀
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That is SO powerful, I could feel it in my spirit!
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SOMETIMES our greatest JOY can be as we rise by simply looking up and saying ‘GOOD morning, Lord. My dear older friend told me when was 101. ‘ Each day I OPEN my eyes and say Good Morning to God, JOY unbelievable floods my soul, I am grateful for this life and my relationship with HIM. ‘
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Wow! You friend sounds AMAZING! The fruit of the Spirit cultivated over an entire century, how indescribably priceless!
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Thinking about the amazing things we could have in this was an interesting exercise. I gave many dreams, but the biggest is to find someone special to share this life with. Intimacy with God is something much more than that, and yet I long for others things more.
Still got a lot of work to go to get there.
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I believe that is a God-given desire in your heart. What comes to mind is Psalm 37:4, Delight yourself in Him, and He will give you the desires of your heart! Learning to delight ourselves in Him is such a journey. I ask the Lord to show Himself to me more and more, as I know that it’s impossible not to delight in Him once we taste and see how God He is!
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