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No fear, no tears, no pain
Q:What is your vision of heaven? What images - from Scripture, tradition, culture or your personal experience - best describe heaven for you?
I believe what I believe about heaven not only because of what I've read in the Old and New Testaments, but because I have met the one man who has been there and back -- my Lord and my Savior, Jesus Christ. His words, actions and yes, His promises, have left me with a great spirit of peace amid the rising chaos and challenges associated with life here on earth.
I am convinced of the following regarding the Heavenly realms:
1. It is only in Heaven that I will be fully understood and where I will fully understand God.
2. Heaven is full of God's presence and all His attributes: namely love, joy and peace.
3. In Heaven there will be no fear, no tears and no pain.
4. In Heaven, at long last, everything old will be made new again.
5. By contrast, hell must be the absolute absence of God's character. Eternally separated from our Creator, hell must be a place full of unrelenting fear, tireless tears and unimaginable pain.
A person also takes on a new perspective of Heaven when he knows there are people there whom he knows and loves - and deeply misses. How I look forward to being reunited with so many of them, especially my dear mother.
Job of the Old Testament was a man greatly burdened and afflicted. Of heaven he said what I believe: "There the wicked cease from turmoil; and there the weary are at rest."
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Jim Daly
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March 23, 2010; 1:41 PM ET
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Posted by: cecilg | March 29, 2010 8:42 AM
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no gays, no blacks, no mexicans, no muslims, no "non-beleivers" and no democrats = Huckabee heaven except for no one to judge, condemn or scapegoat. Maybe it won't be heaven for them after all.
Posted by: coloradodog | March 26, 2010 3:49 PM
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Jim Daly said: In Heaven there will be no fear, no tears and no pain.
A nice idea, but there is no such place.
We all experience hell on earth from time to time, and occasionally we may experience "the kingdom of heaven within".
When we die, we die, as Jesus reportedly did. And then we sleep.