“We’ve been given a glimpse of the real thing, our true home, our resurrection bodies! The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of what’s ahead. He puts a little heaven in our hearts so that we’ll never settle for less.” (2 Corinthians 5:4-5 MSG)
Think of the best meal you’ve ever eaten. Recall its appearance, its flavor, its aroma. Chances are you can’t remember exactly how it tastes. All you know is that you loved it. Although you can’t totally recapture the experience of this gastronomic delight, simply thinking about it certainly gets salivary glands going. Just the thought can make you long for more.
That is what God’s Spirit makes you feel about heaven. You’ve been given a taste of paradise through brief descriptions in the Bible. Furthermore, God’s Spirit has awakened a hunger in your heart that your mind can’t full comprehend. Your heart longs for the home you were created to inhabit, a place where death, pain, and sorrow have no hold, where your body is healthy and whole, where peace and praise replace struggle and strife, where you meet God face to face and never have to say good-bye.
Heaven is as real as those God-given longings. But God didn’t’ give you a taste of what’s ahead to leave you discontent with where you are now. He uses longings as a homing device to keep you headed in the right direction. They remind you to view present problems from an eternal perspective. By keeping heaven in your heart and on your mind, you’ll gain strength to handle life here and now, as you rest in the fact that God’s best is yet to come.
-- From “100 Favorite Bible Verses”
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