One of the pictures in John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” is a man sorting through a can of garbage. He carefully takes out the little bits of tinsel he finds in the garbage can. Behind him is an angel who’s offering him a solid gold crown studded with precious jewels. But the man is so engrossed in the garbage he never notices the angel.
When we get to heaven, will we be ashamed of our preoccupation with the garbage of life -- garbage that prevented us from turning around, leaving it all behind, and reaching out for what God wanted to give us? First Corinthians 2:9 says, “No eye has seen, no ear heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
So look up! Stop clinging so tightly to what you want. Don’t lose out on what God wants to give you.
-- Anne Graham Lotz in “Fixing My Eyes on Jesus”
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