There's a song by Delirious that I've been listening to a lot recently called "The Deeper 99" that's off of their Mezzamorphis album. The main gist of the song is really just one line that says "Heaven is my home", that's repeated with passion, authority and laying claim to.
I was listening to a sermon recently by Rob Bell entitled "Why We Sing", and he was talking about worship in general at one point and mentioned the things in our life that really touch us, that hit our souls at the very deepest. It could be a word from a friend, a part of a movie, a song (with lyrics or without), a waterfall, mountains, anything. He said it was kind of like walking into a cathedral, and the feeling of awe that you have when you do. We feel it because the in that awe, the glory of God is there and we recognize it, our spirits recognize that this is a little piece of the Almighty that is taking place on earth.
Heaven is the anywhere that resides in the presence of God. Different levels of Heaven, perhaps, but it's home. We're wanderers and don't belong here so much of the time...you can feel that in almost every step of the day. We belong in Heaven with God our Father...home is where we belong.
And my hope is this. That place we call home..Heaven.. I think that parts of it are available for viewing here and now. "Your will done on earth as it is in Heaven." Jesus brought the ability to have Heaven here, to be able to see it and know parts of it now. It may be in a movie, or in a song, or maybe it's in a run down neighborhood or a stray dog, where the compassion of God lies. But wherever God has laid Heaven, home, open for the viewing, I hope that you, and I, may be given the vision to see it, and that we may be able to lay hold to it, clutch it to our chest and treasure it dearly, as it is the dearest thing earth.
What nomad in history has ever had a true home on the road besides us?
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none of em. heaven is definitely home. that song is my favorite delerious song, hands down. glad you enjoy it too...
Man is the mythology of God. That fearful and wonderful manifestation of his Image and Likeness. I wonder then how Earth cannot be the mythology of Heaven? The beauty must be here as well, visible and knowable as a translated reflection, just like us.
I was actually thinking about that today...specifically about the creation of time as perhaps a reflection of eternity somehow. I was also thinkin about how God said I am the beginning and the end...and He says it in the present tense, which means the beginning is still now, and the end is already now, which just leads to a lot more sentences while zooming around in the spiritual cosmos.
I've never considered time as a finite reflection of eternity. That's a really wonderful idea to pursue.
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