If we asked five-year-old you to describe heaven, what would you come up with? Probably clouds, angels, harps - maybe, if you were imaginative, some new types of animals. Isn’t it funny how we leave God out from our descriptions? But if we read the Bible, the whole point of heaven is God. Heaven is: a fancier word for His presence. It’s where God rules from. Heaven is: where God is. Heaven is: God. A lot of non-Christians find the idea of heaven really difficult to get hold of: an eternity of endless love? Sounds boring, surely. But for Christians who know God, it’s a different story - ‘you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly’ (Hebrews 12:22 NIV). You get it. You get that this is a place that’s more like a party than a church service. The word most Bibles use is ‘festive’. This is what it’s like to meet with God, the core of everything, the ground of all things - it’s like Christmas. It’s our choice whether we let that reality invade earth or not. Earth isn’t a separate thing from heaven, like a demo level for the real game. Heaven’s like the control centre for here. Earth is where we choose to agree with God’s rule, or don’t. Where we let that reality we know in heaven come to earth, or not. That deeper, stronger reality - no fears, no crying, no illness - will we follow God’s command to let it into earth?

What Now?
Listen to the song ‘Spirit Break Out’ and then pray the line ‘Heaven come down’ over your home, street, town, country and the world.