Have you ever asked yourself whether you’d still want to go to heaven if God weren’t there?
I’m really not into rap, but I just can’t go past this song by Shai Linne:
“Would you be satisfied, to go to heaven, have everybody there in your family that you want there, have all the health and restoration of your prime and everything you disliked about yourself fixed, have every recreation you’ve ever dreamed available to you, and have infinite resources and money to spend, would you be satisfied…
… If God weren’t there?”
This question hits me pretty deep, because to be honest, there’s a big part of me that thinks I would be satisfied; there’s a big part of me that looks forward to and longs for heaven because of all of those things.
But that’s not what I want for my life, nor for my eternity.
May it be my ever increasing desire to say along with Linne and King David that:
“I don’t wanna go to heaven if God is not there.
Whom have I in Heaven but You (nobody), And earth has nothing I desire but You. My flesh and my heart may fail, however – the Lord is my portion forever… forever… “
I’m having to remind myself this week that my hope and my treasure is not in a place or in things, but in a person. Heaven is not heaven without God. May He be the sole desire of my heart.
sarsrose 
Wow. Great post. The truth is what makes Heaven an incredible place is that God is there! And of course, there would be no Heaven without Him. Thank you and God Bless.
Thank you! Great to have you visit my blog and thanks for taking the time to comment. Our God is great… I hope that by the time I die, I know him much better than I do now.
Amen.
The closer we get to Jesus, the greater He becomes in our life. God Bless.
Yes, I’ve asked myself that question as well. Heaven is not heaven without Jesus. I’m not a huge fan of rap either, but our family does like listening to Shai Linne.
So true. Yeah Shai Linne has some amazing theologically sound stuff!
Does Gabriel enjoy the rap?
I’m not a big rap fan, so I haven’t exposed them to any other rap artists, except Shai Linne. My husband and I have been to a couple of his concerts, and my son is requesting that we take him with us next time. 🙂
I actually posted about Shai Linne, if you want to have a read.
http://especiallymade.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/rhyme-time/
[…] My third point follows from this and centres around the focus of those who supposedly went to heaven. From my quick perusal of the synopses of these books, much of the focus (and validation) of the experiences concerns meeting people in heaven who they once knew. While I have no doubt that we will be reunited with loved ones who had accepted Jesus as their saviour on earth, my problem with these recounts is twofold. First, in any biblical description of any person ascending to heaven (to my knowledge, always in the spirit or a vision, never dead, eg: John (Rev 1) and Isaiah (Isaiah 6)) the person concerned was always completely captivated by the Glory and majesty of God. There was no mention of anything secondary, and no mention of meeting loved ones. From my understanding, meeting loved ones was a primary focus in this book. (For an interesting unpacking of this, see my post entitled ‘What if you got to Heaven… and God wasn’t there’ […]