INTENTIONAL FAITH · THE PROMISE
If heaven is real, if it’s a place of resurrected bodies and restored creation and unbroken fellowship with Jesus, then it changes how we live right now. Here are a few practical ways to keep the shore in view.
- Seek it daily. Remember zeteo. Read Revelation 21–22 slowly. Let a verse about heaven be the last thing on your mind at night.
- Let Scripture feed your imagination. When you see something beautiful, say a quiet prayer: “Lord, if this is a shadow, what will the substance be?”
- Grieve with hope. When believers you love die, they haven’t stopped existing. As D. L. Moody told his friends, when they read that he was dead, they shouldn’t believe it, for he’d be more alive than ever.
- Hold this world loosely. Moving day is coming. Invest in what lasts.
- Tell others about both roads. Love warns. Love invites.
- Endure. When the fog rolls in, remember Florence Chadwick. The shore may be closer than you think. Jesus said, “Be of good cheer” (John 16:33, NKJV).
For reflection
- Which one of these practices will you begin this week?
- How would your hardest current struggle look different if you viewed it from the shore?