Every morning that my mom dropped me of at school during high school, I told her that I didn't want to go to school, I wanted to go to heaven and be with Jesus. Then, my reason for wanting to go to heaven was because I hated high school, at least freshman and sophomore year. Now, I long to go to heaven for a different reason. It seems that every time I open up yahoo, or turn on the news, or go to any other major form of media all that is being reported is the bad stuff. Lately it's been about shootings. There was been the theater shooting in Aurora last July. More recently there was the shooting in Newton, and I am constantly hearing about other shootings in colleges across the country. Quite frankly, I am tired of hearing of death, and evil, and corruption in our society. It just drives me crazy. Not to mention everything that is going on with the politics lately. I don't really know much about that, but I know whatever is happening cant be good.
Hebrews 13 says this, "For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come." (Hebrews 13:14 NLT) I am tired of living here on this earth. I just want to go to my permanent home in heaven and join with those who have gone before me. I have had this conversation with many people and more often than not their response is somewhere along the lines of, "but I want to get married first" or "I want to have a family" or "I'm not done living my life yet". And I tell them, well I want those things too, but if staying here to get married, have kids, and finish my life means that I have to endure death, pain, and suffering then I think I want to go to heaven where there is no death, pain, or suffering. I want to go to heaven where I don't have to work for a living, but can sit at the feet of my King and worship Him all day long. I get a lot of weird looks, but I don't care. I wasn't put on this earth to care about what others think of me.
No matter how bad any of us want to go to heaven, no one knows when God will finally call us home. In Matthew Jesus tells us this, "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."(Matthew 24:36 NIV) For as long as I remember I have been told that we are living in the last days. My mom says that she was always told that we were living in the last days when she was growing up. And my grandma tells stories of when she was young that they were living in the last days. That's three generations all living in the last days. I guess the only thing to do is wait here on earth as patiently as possible and continue sharing the gospel of Jesus.
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